The Trump administration is floating the idea of mining the seafloor off Alaska’s coast. The U.S. Department of the ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...

Scientists define marine darkwaves - sudden drops in underwater light - and examine their effects on plants, animals, and ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...

Research Vessel Sally Ride off the coast of Santa Catalina Island. March 2021. Photo credit: Courtes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego A second sweeping survey of the seafloor off ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans. There are better maps of ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

By Elizabeth Devitt They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world ...