A new study from the University of Manchester and the United Kingdom's National Oceanography Centre has uncovered a hidden ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Mucky riverbeds. The underside of wind turbines or offshore fish farms. Oil platforms. Reefs and shipwrecks in a harbour.

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

Over the Easter weekend, seven people drowned along the Australian coast. Most were swept off rock platforms— extremely ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

And that connection between our deep oceans and deep space? Well, of course, all astronauts work under deep water as part of ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...