The Baltic Sea is better known than the North Sea for highlighting the vulnerability of the alliance's critical undersea ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Research Spotlights Mapping the Ocean Floor with Ancient Tides A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Sperm Whale. Image via Pixabay. Despite oceans covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, we have mapped less than 25% of the ocean floor at high resolution. Traditional ocean floor mapping methods face ...

A map shows the path of the MV Stena Immaculate tanker and Solong cargo ship that collided off the coast of England in the North Sea, March 10, 2025. Yann Schreiber and Paz Pizarro/AFP via Getty ...

Thanks to Tharp’s hand-drawn renditions of the ocean floor, I can imagine a walk across the Atlantic Ocean bottom from New York City to Lisbon. The journey would take me out along the continental ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

This image provided by NOAA shows a North Atlantic right whale in the waters off New England, in May 2024. Some whales' voices can carry across an ocean. BlueiQ, a startup, is developing tools to ...

The sea lions' trackers enabled scientists to place different habitat types on an ocean map. Credit: Angelakis et al, Frontiers in Marine Science/DOI 10.3389/fmars.2024.1425554 ...

A map showing the topography of the Stetson Mesa north region of the Million Mounds, an important habitat supporting a diversity of marine life. Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest ...

We barely have a clue what these hard-to-reach ecosystems hold, with more than 75 percent of the globe's ocean floor yet to be charted in detail. But new technology has just allowed researchers to map ...