On crowded platforms perched above the icy waters of Cook Inlet, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels.

A Cold War-era missile storage facility that has been transformed into an ultrasecure, private home is on the market in ...

Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

From groundbreaking research to the beauty of marine sanctuaries teeming with life, these images shine a spotlight on the ...

Far beneath the ocean’s sunlit surface, in crushing darkness and near-freezing temperatures, lurks a creature once thought to be a rarity of the deep. Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, ...

What appears to be a dugong vacuuming the ocean floor is actually a dugong eating ... “standing” upright on its tail with its head above water as it takes in a breath. Since dugongs are ...

The ocean covers almost 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, and over 95 percent remains unexplored. With so much of the ocean still a mystery, any new deep-sea discovery has the potential to reshape ...

In an area totally covered by sediment, he believed, hydrothermal circulation occurs within the basement rock but there is no connection to the sea water above. Figure 1: Changes in ocean-floor ...

SWOT can note those subtle differences by observing bumps above along the surface of the ... ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much ...