As crews work to remove potentially tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

The announcement comes after reports that Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence detected 62 Chinese military aircraft near ...

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

The “cold seep” ecosystem research facility will be positioned 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) beneath the surface of the ...

A new study suggests that elephant seals can serve as “smart sensors” for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight zone.

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

China has approved the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea to support marine exploration.

The South China Sea’s rich resources, including methane hydrates and rare minerals, make it a strategic location. By ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...