A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg have investigated the composition of ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

The weathering and dissolution of evaporite minerals and silicate minerals were the main sources of the hydrochemical components, and also the main controlling factors for the hydrochemical evolution ...

A study in Marine Pollution Bulletin reveals record-high marine litter in deep waters, highlighting the urgent environmental crisis in the Mediterranean.

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

The deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, Calypso Deep, was found to be a bit of a dump. That's surprising because we don't ...

Canada's Northwest Passage presents a potential deep-water Arctic shipping route between ... Five (5) sub-regions make up the Canadian Arctic domain (Kane Basin, Foxe Basin, Baffin Bay, the Beaufort ...

Anderson and DaSilva also expect warm water reaching deep into the ocean ... as sea-surface temperatures and ocean heat content (OHC) across most of the basin are forecast to be well above ...