R esearchers have detected hints of life where they did not believe it could exist. Findings regarding this discovery have ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...

The significance of deep-sea virology and its impacts on global climate and biogeochemical structures is not unknown, though its importance might be understated Despite their tiny size, viruses have a ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g., ...

The first-ever climate assessment for the state of Virginia is sounding the alarm for the Commonwealth’s coastal regions. The ...