Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, sediment cores hold secrets that could reshape how scientists predict Earth's climate future. These deep-sea layers capture snapshots of ancient oceans ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged seafloor ecosystems—or how long it would take.

FEW geophysical problems have such important bearings as that of sampling undisturbed sediment cores of great length from ocean deeps. Questions pertaining to the permanence of ocean basins or ...

Scientists have discovered an area in the Red Sea with natural death traps in the region believed to be the location where Moses parted the waters.

Scientists delving into the unexplored regions of the Red Sea have uncovered perilous natural traps on the ocean floor. They identified brine pools located nearly 4,000 feet beneath the surface of ...

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of ...

For the second study, published in Nature Geoscience, Jones and his co-authors focused on deep sea cores of lithified sediments from offshore southwest Australia, which he and colleagues collected ...

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.

Mucus-Covered Jellyfish Hint at Dangers of Deep-Sea Mining Shipboard experiments suggested that sediment from the exploitation of metals in the ocean could be harmful to marine life. Share full ...

Scientists exploring the Red Sea have discovered natural death traps believed to be where Moses parted the waters in the Bible.