The video, taken by Gold Coast Freediver (@goldcoastfreediver), shows a shark ray gliding gracefully over the ocean floor.

Cape Town, South Africa, came perilously close to running out of fresh water for its nearly 5 million people in 2018 during ...

Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

Snailfish belong to the Liparidae family, and are often described for their large heads, jelly-like bodies, bumpy and loose ...

In 2020, haunting images of corroded metal barrels in the deep ocean off Los Angeles leapt into the public consciousness.

Barrels dumped off Southern California decades ago have been found leaking alkaline waste, not just DDT, leaving behind eerie ...

Undersea freshwater isn’t unique to New England. Coastal aquifer systems have been inferred or sampled near South Africa, ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.

The waste was likely dumped alongside barrels of DDT discovered in recent years. Its chemical makeup has changed the types of ...

The research has led to a range of discoveries. A few years ago, Scripps researchers found that most of the thousands of barrel-sized objects on the seafloor were discarded World War II-era munitions ...

USC scientists are exploring how the sandy seafloor off the Southern California coast takes up CO 2 and helps protect the long-term health of our oceans. The ocean plays a vital role in protecting the ...

Barrels of industrial waste dumped into the Pacific Ocean decades ago are still affecting the deep seafloor off the Los ...