The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

When boarding a Delta flight, you'll notice a number one through nine on your boarding pass. This is the zone in which you can board your flight. Delta implemented this procedure to help streamline ...

Chinese sturgeon, which can reach sizes of 14 to 16 feet, are “benthic predators” per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—in other words, when fully grown they eat just about ...

Alex Scott, Solana's Middle East Lead, describes the Economic Zone as a transformative platform with diverse stakeholders eager to contribute to economic and technological advancement in the UAE.

"We took a step back and recognised that the ocean, and particularly beneath the surface of the ocean was one of the last remaining blind spots for humanity," said Sean Wolpert, the president of DEEP.

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale and are very difficult to measure and model. But recently scientists ...