Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

The Trump administration is floating the idea of mining the seafloor off Alaska’s coast. The U.S. Department of the ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the ...

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, ...

What about managing a planet, when almost all the largest habitat is visually unexplored? The oceans of the earth occupy ...

Scientists define marine darkwaves - sudden drops in underwater light - and examine their effects on plants, animals, and ...

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

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

Tiny metallic particles dredged up from the seafloor in the South Pacific could be the first substantial bits of material ever found from outside the solar system, according to test results reported ...

Research Vessel Sally Ride off the coast of Santa Catalina Island. March 2021. Photo credit: Courtes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego A second sweeping survey of the seafloor off ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions.

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The study could help scientists understand and respond to other intense ...