According to public records, Chinese research vessels have in recent years conducted detailed studies of waters off the east ...

Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a ...

Bethany Kolody prepares water samples aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown, during the P18 GO-SHIP voyage from Easter Island to Antarctica in the Sout ...

The US military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore. Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf Coast States, Biodiversity ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is a staggering 2,722 ft tall. That’s 829.8 metres, or just over half a mile, making London’s top skyscraper, the Shard, seem like a glorified ...

The dives, which are a testament to the new advanced standards for underwater research, are scheduled to be streamed live ...