Growing up, my summers were spent visiting the Jersey Shore, the beach-filled coastline of New Jersey along the Atlantic Ocean (no, I don't personally know Snooki). No matter where I went, whether it ...

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, who have spent more than a ...

Deep in the ocean, scientists discovered the presence of "dark ... deep sea behave like a geobattery in which they "generate a small electric current (about one volt each) that splits water ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark ... ocean with fresh data. Once again, the landers will seal off samples of ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor ... them to split water molecules into ...

Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone caves filled with sea water, also serve as important repositories for storm data due to sediments captured with in their low-oxygen bottom layers.

Outside the ship’s windows, the sun glinted off the dark-blue water ... ocean bottom. At the surface, those rig divers live in sealed, pressurized chambers that match the conditions beneath the ...

Rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface ... several rare metals and that lie on the deep, dark seafloor react with salt water, according to a paper published in Nature ...

"However, this puts a major asterisk onto strategies for sea-floor mining as ocean-floor faunal diversity in nodule-rich areas is higher than in the most diverse tropical rainforests." The dark ...