thanks to erosion depositing unfathomably large amounts of sediment into the ocean basin on deep time scales. Instead, we ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...

The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia, up to 10 meters deep—marking the early stages of an ocean basin. The East African Rift mimics the ...