A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...
What about managing a planet, when almost all the largest habitat is visually unexplored? The oceans of the earth occupy ...
It can be seen that over the two-thirds of the surface of the planet, there is less than 0.001% of the deep ocean seafloor, ...
An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can ...
Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways Christian Elliott A variety of marine creatures and unique features can be found in the ...
Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...
The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...
Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up ...