Whales, dolphins and seals live in tight-knit societies that rival primate groups in complexity, and those same bonds are ...

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

In August 2026, Gradone and Selden will lead a 28-day expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (too), a state-of-the-art research ...

Along the edges of the United States, scientists are tracking a cluster of unsettling signals that all point in the same ...

During training cruises and regattas, sailors collect valuable data for climate research at sea. A study appearing in Science ...

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day. This part ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

Scientists have found that oceanic manta rays routinely make extreme dives of more than 1,200 meters – three-quarters of a mile – but it's not to feed, nor is it happening everywhere in deep water.

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