President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea ...

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

The hull descended in a straight line and is largely still intact—the scan shows it neatly wedged into the ocean floor. The stern, on the other hand, is shattered, and researchers have never ...

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, ...

This isn’t the first time scientists have found thriving ecosystems in seemingly inhospitable parts of the ocean. For decades, marine biologists have studied hydrothermal vents—essentially ...

According to an article published by the Farmingdale Observer, the team has released the most detailed map to date of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean ...

The exceptionally thick, 205-mile-deep mantle transition zone beneath the Antilles ranks among the thickest ever observed around the world.

Prior research has shown that millions of tons of plastics are piling up in the environment, including on the ocean floor. Because of this, scientists have been looking for better, biodegradable ...

As the world cruises through spring, meteorologists and climatologists are closely watching ever-changing water temperatures in the Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean to determine the status of the El ...

That’s how it can act as a durable record of deep-Earth processes that unfolded long before the ocean floor around it even existed. This discovery also casts doubt on a long-standing idea in ...