New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

Thousands of feet below sea level, the creatures that live in the deep sea survive without direct sunlight, plants or the ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue carbon sinks. Offshore infrastructure such as wind turbines and oil platforms, ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only ...

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Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

Researchers say our understanding of Earth’s largest biome is based on a tiny, unrepresentative sample dominated by just a ...

Improved maps of the seafloor are essential to safe navigation, protecting the marine environment and helping us understand Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor ...

“Through these collaborations, we have been able to start detailed maps of rare-earth element distribution across the ocean floor.” It’s a long and painstaking process, he says, and covering ...

Ocean-bottom seismology stations are designed to monitor earthquakes, and often pick up whale songs. Researchers have previously used these incidental recordings to track fin whale movements, but this ...

Scientists usually map parts of the seabed by using remotely ... the videos provided the researchers with a rare perspective of the ocean floor. The scientists trained a machine learning model ...