Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...

“For most of the ocean, we don’t know what the bottom looks like,” said Nathan Angelakis, a doctoral student at the South ...

Ocean explorers spotted what looked like a "yellow brick road" to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean in 2022. Here's what we know ...

Spanish authorities redeployed a marine research vessel to join the search for missing flood victims along the Mediterranean ...

Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing Habits to Adapt to Climate Change Oct. 21, 2024 — In a massive research project spanning ...

Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea.

Sea cucumbers: The moppers of the ocean floor Sea cucumbers, as part of their scavenger diet, devour coral disease-causing bacteria and the decaying ‘food’ that the bacteria thrived on.

Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and ...