A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Explore how deep sea water can be transformed into drinkable freshwater, potentially addressing the global water crisis. This ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out at it? It turns ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

In the South China Sea, off China’s Hainan Island, researchers dropped the carcass of a cow about 5,340 feet down to the ...

Recent advances in technology have made deep-sea mining more feasible. But removing the nodules - which also requires pumping ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.