Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

More precise maps created using data from the SWOT mission can enhance underwater navigation and provide deeper insights into ...

DR DIVA AMON:The deep sea is absolutely the last unexplored frontier on our planet. The ocean floor is actually less well-mapped than the surface of Mars, Venus and the Moon. DR DIVA AMON ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies ...

The ocean has an average depth of approximately 3.7 kilometres (or 2.3 miles). A calculation from satellite measurements in 2010 put the average depth at 3,682 metres (12,080 feet). However, at the ...

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

For the deeper seas and ocean, Vescovo has a bold new proposal. Where the water is too deep for light to penetrate, but it is still in an area near enough to the coast, with a depth between 30 and ...

A fraction of this carbon makes its way to the deep ocean, where it is recycled back into inorganic carbon and stored, isolated from the atmosphere. The flux of carbon to the deep ocean can be ...

1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Their ...