In 2022, the eruption of the underwater Hunga volcano near Tonga sent a plume of ash soaring 37 miles into the sky, setting a new record as the largest volcanic plume ever captured by satellites. This ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Here, any sedimentary layers that settle to the bed of the brine pool remain exquisitely intact…Our current understanding is ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

The seafloor observation network can perform all-weather, long-term, continuous, real-time, and in-situ observation of the ocean by combining various observation methods including cabled seafloor ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

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 ...