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Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...
Diving 120 feet beneath the surface, we explored a long-lost shipwreck and found something we never expected inside. This ...
The sea life in this part of the ocean has had to adapt to the extreme cold water. Some animals here have blue blood, which ...
Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...
Canada’s 28,000-kilometre Trans Canada Trail was never under consideration. Nor was the 8,850-km route along the Great Wall ...
Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.
A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...
The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of ...
The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...
Deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) is a common oceanographic phenomenon characterized by a significant peak in chlorophyll concentration at a specific depth below the ocean surface. DCM formation is ...
A sea creature was spotted with a “deep gash” off the coast of Alaska, and now rangers are looking for answers. On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and ...