The Taam Ja’ blue hole is located just off the southeastern coast of Mexico. It was once believed to be the second deepest ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's ocean basins, according to the National Ocean Service. It contains more than half of the free water on Earth, spanning around 63 million square miles .

The ocean's color depends on what's in the upper layer of the water column. A deep blue sea doesn't have not much life in that upper layer. When an ocean turns green, however, ...

Deep ocean exploration began with the diving bell: a rigid structure that contains air, used to transport divers to an area ...

"The blue wavelengths of light are scattered, similar to the scattering of blue light in the sky, but absorption is a much larger factor than scattering for the clear ocean water.

A beautiful blue flaw in a gem-quality diamond from Botswana is actually a tiny fragment of Earth’s deep interior—and it suggests our planet’s mantle contains oceans’ worth of water.. The ...

The study by the world-leading ocean health initiative Back to Blue found these worrying gaps in ocean literacy levels among 18–24-year-olds in 35 countries. Young people ‘do not fully fathom ...