A team of marine researchers discovers over 1,300 underwater rings in the Mediterranean and solves the mystery after years of ...

However, recent sediment layers known as “tempestites” reveal that the dramatic uptick of storms in recent decades can be attributed to warmer ocean waters ... well of dark water surrounded ...

These endeavors have illuminated the structures embedded within the ... of other interesting features, such as the Ocean of Storms, a large dark plain caused by ancient lava flows.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

It's believed to account for roughly 85% of the universe's mass, yet no telescope or sensor on Earth has been able to track ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Limnology and Oceanography Vol. 54, No. 5, Sep., 2009 Microbial Oceanography of the Dark Ocean... Microbial Oceanography of the Dark Ocean's Pelagic ...

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the ...