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Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

Heartbreaking images reveal the deadly impact of plastic pollution on ocean wildlife as Trump goes 'back to plastic' by ...

Don Walsh, an Aggie and oceanic explorer who was first to reach the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, will have a U.S. Navy ...

While Saturday night's storm barely nicked North Jersey with three inches of snow, attention is already turning to Tuesday's storm expected to bring up to a half foot to the southern part of the ...

What creatures lurk in the pitch-black oceans of Challenger Deep? The deepest part of the Earth’s oceans is a portion of the Mariana Trench that reaches a maximum depth of 36,070 feet.

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Project, or the Chang’e Project for short, continues its series of robotic moon missions with plans next year to visit the far side of Earth’s only natural ...

Hundreds of Pacific Islanders with convictions are expected to be deported from the U.S., newspapers in Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Marshall Islands have reported, prompting concern over the ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our target was an east-to-west transect starting near Guam, over the Challenger ...

Some of the peninsula is part of an ancient complex of landslides that has been moving for at least the past six decades, according to NASA. The peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean just south of ...