Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to climate scientists.

Scientists analysed an unprecedented volume of atmospheric and oceanic data, assessing 1-degree latitude strips of the ocean ...

A team of ocean optics experts, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, has evaluated the accuracy of above-water optical sensors, ...

Axial Seamount is situated 300 miles off the Oregon coast and is getting closer to erupting for the first time in 10 years.

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.