Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fueling Antarctica’s marine food web. For decades, scientists have attributed ...

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

Using robotic fins, researchers have learned how stingrays are able to swim with impressive control. These insights could ...

NOAA’s National Ocean Service announced a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterize more than 30,000 square ...

Twenty-nine satellite images, ranging from 2009 to 2024, continue to come back to the same bright form in the shallow waters of Nikumaroro’s lagoon as if the seafloor is unwilling to allow the tale to ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

A granite wall under the Atlantic Ocean in France reveals the existence of a community that predates the arrival of ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Between July and September 2025, five Chinese research and military ships entered U.S. Arctic waters near Alaska at the same time. The Department of Homeland Security described this surge as ...

Abstract: Mesoscale eddies are dynamic oceanic phenomena significantly influencing marine ecosystems’ energy transfer, nutrients, and biogeochemical cycles. These eddies’ precise identification and ...