Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 ...

As part of The World's ongoing series The Big Fix, Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Susanna Lidström, a researcher at the KTH ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

Last October the Bermuda Arts Centre celebrated its 40th anniversary. That in itself is worth celebrating in that the ...

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 ...

It’s been more than a century since the ship that was once thought of as unsinkable was lost to the ocean floor during her maiden voyage. Because the Titanic’s wreckage is so large and lies in ...

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 ...

The ocean floor remains one of the last unexplored areas of the planet. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, only 26.1% of the global sea floor had been mapped with ...

The experience sends participants in an equipment-free dive from the surface to the ocean floor, using visuals that simulate reality to such an extent that players feel as though they’re actually ...

Fishing for Antarctic krill began in the Indian Ocean sector in the 1970s and it ... Since then, changes in bottom water characteristics have become apparent, and detailed, wide-area oceanographic ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We’ve mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA’s SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to ...