Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean ...

Rogue holes are sort of the opposite of that. According to the 2012 study that proved their existence, a rogue hole would ...

The Gonatus antarcticus squid, a mysterious squid found only in the frigid waters around Antarctica, was caught on camera on ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, sediment cores hold secrets that could reshape how scientists predict Earth's climate ...

Far beneath the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, at depths ranging from 900 to 1200 kilometers, researchers have uncovered ...

For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human ...

A marine heat wave has been building in the ocean surrounding the UK during an exceptionally warm and dry spring. In other ...

“It’s the unknown,” says Erich Hoyt, author of Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live In. “You look out on the ocean and you might see a dolphin ...

The oil-and-gas and deep-sea-mining industries require extensive knowledge, and they pay for it. But, with a few exceptions, the characteristics of the deepest trenches are largely unknown.

And the ice caps covering the Arctic and Antarctica began to melt, raising sea levels around the world. A vast array of ancient evidence — including ice cores, fossils, deep sea sediments and ...

US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at advancing the deep-sea mining industry. This directive mandates the US government to accelerate the review of seabed mining ...

They pored over studies that took data from satellites, climate models and evidence from the past, from things like ice cores, deep-sea sediments and even octopus DNA. What they found painted a ...