Tag: oceans

The deep seafloor remains a mystery—only 0.001% has been seen.

Mars' surface may hide evidence of volcanoes that are still active.

Hydrothermal vents are some of the most interesting geological phenomena on the planet.

Dunkleosteus looked like a brute, and it probably was one. It thrived during the Devonian Period (also known as the ...

The change reflects significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems

They are as tall as 500 meters.

The camera device uses sound waves to power itself and transmit data.

The situation for the oceans is critical. Could these agreements provide the desperately-needed protection?

Since 2021, a new ocean has been added by cartographers, bringing the tally to five grand oceanic basins.

The map covers 48 million square kilometers (185 million square miles) and details a new deepest point

This is bad news for water quality and biodiversity

Maybe just... stop doing it?

The extent of plastic pollution in our ocean is stunning.

Shorter wash cycles and cold water can reduce the amount of microfibers that end up in the ocean by 30%.

Deep-water probes now record fewer decibels of noise as the coronavirus has put a halt on maritime traffic.

Jellyfish can sting swimmers and their prey with 'mucus grenades'

The closest extinct human relative was more similar to us than initially thought.

In the past three decades, oceans absorbed as much energy as 3.6 billion Hiroshima-sized atom bombs.

Governments have the chance to increase ambition next year

There are about 700 ocean sites with low levels of oxygen, an IUCN report presented at COP25 reported.

MPAs can help protect marine and coastal biodiversity

Every year more than 640.000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps are dumped in the sea

Researchers found that the extinction event from 66 million years ago coincided with a sharp drop in the pH levels ...

Despite initially thought to come from land, most plastic debris in the sea can be linked to merchant ships, according ...

The ocean is warmer, more acidic, less productive, and rising.

Flowing through rivers and oceans, plastic waste has become an important environmental threat across the globe.

Plastic is everywhere -- literally.

These are not the waves we're looking for.

A song of fire and water, on Mars.

Microbeads are slowly killing off oceanic wildlife -- and that's affecting us as well.

Given the sheer size of whales, it should be no surprise that they make some very important contributions to ecosystems.

They don't seem to be having a good time.

After they studied how much man-made heat got sucked by the world's oceans in the past 150 years, researchers found ...

Bad news for us -- and fish.

Aaah, the ocean. The true final frontier. Full of wonderful and exciting things, such as strange fish, stranger crustaceans, beautiful ...

When talking about global warming, we often tend to think about droughts, water shortage and desertification. But we must not ...

Researchers have developed a three dimensional atlas which shows the concentrations of iron dissolved in the world's oceans. This monumental ...

Earlier this year, NASA launched the Argentine SAC-D satellite that has a number of instruments whose sole goal is that ...

Climate change and over-fishing are held responsible for the swift collapse of coral reefs and the propagation of mass extinction ...

Boy I've gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the ...

Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have ...

The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance ...