While research on anchor impacts is increasing in tropical reefs, Watson highlighted a major knowledge gap in Antarctica. Each vessel anchoring in 30-40 meters of water could disturb at least 1,600 ...

The world’s biggest iceberg – more than twice the size of Britain’s capital city - is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor in Antarctica. The huge mass of ice broke ...

Scientists modelling January's dramatic volcanic eruption at Tonga have modelled debris flows on the Pacific seafloor. Huge volumes of rock and ash ran out across the ocean bottom surrounding the ...

The iceberg then became grounded on the seafloor. But in recent years, it has been on the move again, after shaking loose. Here's a quick recap of the iceberg, its history and its potential future ...

Although many species have evolved to survive and thrive at these depths, the seafloor is very much uninhabitable to humans. In fact, only around a couple dozen people have actually been to the ...

This process pockmarks the seafloor with huge numbers of “feeding ... “is not even scratching the surface of how much sand they actually move.” Based on this estimate, the researchers ...

Other types of sea spiders that don’t live near seeps largely eat other invertebrates. But the researchers found the new sea ...

(In general, a tsunami occurs when the deep seafloor moves up or down during a quake, sending a wave to the surface that concentrates its energy and gathers height as it reaches shallower coastal ...