The remaining $30 million (USD) is slated to upgrade the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Ocean Observing System, a very long name for a very useful network of buoys designed ...

The World Ocean Assessment - or, to give its full title, The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment - is the outcome of the first cycle of the United Nations' Regular Process for Global Reporting ...

Join us on a deep dive into oceans — and some of the things smart people are doing to address climate resilience, food security, and environmental justice at sea and on shore.

Oct. 10, 2024 — Microscopic organisms in the ocean play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new study unveils a hidden biological factor that could change our ...

Small deep-sea studies have already suggested many of the minerals can be found near Japan’s shores. However, the seafloor slopes steeply downward from the country’s shoreline, and rare-earth ...

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

Join the Nektons on another adventure in The Deep: Mysteries of the Oceans and dive into a thrilling adventure of discovery! Click to play the game. Game Click to play the game Dive into three ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

"Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly ... the Gulf of Aqaba to widen ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Like a deep-sea modern dancer, a rarely seen animal undulates in the dark, its vast arms swirling slowly through the water. You’ve just ...