Damage to sensitive sea floor ecosystems sparks calls for tighter regulation of the tourist ship industry in the Antarctic ...

As part of her PhD, she's studying deeper mesophotic reefs, which includes the role of sea sponges. "They're ecosystem engineers, they filter a whole lot of water and create habitats, so it's ...

Ships operate in every ocean, and even the most remote waters aren't off-limits. When they anchor, they leave behind a footprint. Anchoring cannot ...

Estimated sea-level rise could lead to a quadrupling ... We need more land to act as a sponge for excess water instead of continually trying to drive it away, so we will need to enlist the help ...

It was attached to the stem of a sea sponge anchored on one of the valuable ... that will travel vertically and horizontally in the water far from the original mining sites, Amon said.

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

Within 24 hours of the confirmed spill, nearly 100 responders were actively working. US agencies scramble to contain massive ...

A team of international scientists recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the waters of the South Sandwich ...