A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

This allowed researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) to investigate what lived on the seafloor under ... below the surface of the ocean. "Normally, deep-sea ecosystems ...

HMS Eagle, a seasoned Royal Navy aircraft carrier, surged through the Mediterranean at 24 knots as part of the high-stakes Operation Pedestal, aimed at relieving the besieged island of Malta. Once ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet (200 meters) below the ocean surface ... in 1994 under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to regulate it.

This adds more than two meters to global sea levels by 2300 ... changes in the height of the ice at the surface. Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they ...

Striking historic drawings of the Great Barrier Reef found in an old, waterlogged book capture the spell this underwater ...

Richardson Bay is a natural harbor that on maps resembles a cartoon fish chomping into the Marin County peninsula. It is shallow, making it perfect as an anchorage. The bottom of the bay is covered ...

Combined Arctic and Antarctic sea ice cover—frozen ocean water that floats on the surface—plunged to a record low in mid-February, more than a million square miles below the pre-2010 average.

Polar sea ice has reached record ... and increasingly common surface melting temperatures in Greenland. “The loss of the summer ice cover is one of our most visible signs of climate change ...

In an online video documenting the erection of the 65-foot-tall spar that supported the cabin, Elwartowski offered a message: ...