Australia's icebreaker has been involved in an incident in which the ship's hull "made contact with the ocean floor" off the ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm audience at the Neutrino 2024 conference. The highly energetic neutrino ...

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, ...

The deep-sea remains one of the most unexplored regions on Earth, due in large part to the immense challenges posed by its depth and vastness. Yet, the recent advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

A recent study provides hints into their toxic contents, but UC Santa Barbara’s David Valentine is “not entirely sold that they really know what's in the barrels.” ...

The High Seas Treaty, effective January, enables vast conservation zones in international waters to protect 30% of the oceans.

China needs to have better technology and a bigger say in the international maritime order if it is to win the global deep-sea mining race for critical minerals, according to a senior official from ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

A new report by the European Union's marine monitoring service has found that the waters off Nova Scotia have been gradually ...

Underneath the ocean floor, around 50 miles south of Nantucket, there’s a freshwater aquifer — a pocket of water that has been there for somewhere between 20,000 and 1 million years. And this summer a ...

Screenshot: data collected off Antarctica as part of the International Hydrographic Organization's Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) initiative. Terradepth and The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 ...

Until 1957, most of the public believed that the bottom of the ocean was a flat featureless expanse of sand, stretching endlessly around the globe. Then the first relief map of the Atlantic Ocean ...