Critical underwater infrastructure that underpins the global economy is becoming increasingly vulnerable, and governments are starting to assess how they can be protected. "It's the changing threat ...
On a 1964 mission to study deep waters in the Antarctic, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) research vessel Eltanin captured an image of what looked like an artificial antenna on the sea floor.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warmer ocean waters fueled by the El Niño climate pattern are drawing more sharks to Southern California, including species that ...
Warmer ocean waters fueled by the El Niño climate pattern are drawing more sharks to Southern California, including species that typically remain farther south, as a marine heat wave raises water ...
A new subsea habitat for humans just dropped (literally), all the way to the ocean floor. The habitat is called Vanguard, and it’s designed by a company named Deep. This habitat houses up to four ...
From global shipping routes to the cables that power the internet, much of modern life depends on understanding a landscape that remains largely unmapped: the ocean floor. At the 27th annual Roger ...
The Pacific covers about a third of the planet's surface and is larger than all the continents combined, yet it is slowly closing as its floor is consumed at subduction zones. Image: Gokce Erem / ...
Most of Earth’s crust lies beneath its oceans, so it’s no surprise that most of the destruction and renewal of the crust also happens in the depths. Researchers deployed a geodetic observatory to ...
"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most of Earth’s surface lies beneath the ocean. And while endless blue stretches of waves may seem peaceful ...
July 21 (Reuters) - Some 74 years after a Pan American Airways flight crashed into the water off the coast of Puerto Rico, an aviation search team said it ‌found the wreckage sitting on the ocean ...
For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the birth of a seafloor in real time, way down in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a groundbreaking report in the journal Nature. “We did not ...
The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in Nature. The observations offer insight into how new oceanic crust is created ...