At the bottom of the ocean, at a depth of 10,000 meters, there is tremendous water pressure. Human submersibles cannot go ...

Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent, ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static—a massive, still abyss far removed ...

The warming of the deep depths of the Arctic Ocean can't be explained by geothermal heating alone, with a recent study citing ...

Scientists explain the bizarre phenomenon of internal waves, invisible underwater giants that can rival skyscrapers in height.

A new paper from scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences gives a preview of how deep-sea mining can rapidly disrupt the ...

A new decades-long study of oceanographic conditions provides new evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the ice shelves that fringe the continent. Researchers at UC ...

There are many types of buoys, which come in a variety of shapes and colors. Captains need to be familiar with what a yellow buoy means for boating, for instance. Some buoys are designed to remain in ...