The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on a new mineral frontier: the deep ocean floor. The order lays the groundwork for a new $100 ...

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Imagine a giant creature sinking slowly into the ocean depths, becoming an unexpected source of life for creatures in one of the planet’s most mysterious environments. When this colossal being dies, ...

Prior research has shown that millions of tons of plastics are piling up in the environment, including on the ocean floor ... across shallow to deep sea, Science Advances (2025).

Now picture a wavelength that is 100s of miles long! Because the wavelengths are so long, the waves travel at very high speeds, around 600 miles per hour, in the deep ocean. This is the speed at which ...

Tsunamis spread out in all directions from their point of origin and can travel across entire ocean basins, around islands, and even up into bays and rivers. In the deep ocean, tsunami waves are ...