Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

For the first time, the U.S. Navy successfully recovered an unmanned underwater vehicle from a submerged submarine—without ...

Research expeditions found that pockmarks in the Pacific Ocean were not created in the way they originally thought.

The development is part of the OceanGreen project led by Ava Ocean, in which Akvaplan-niva is one of the partners.

Off the coast of Sicily, Sea Shepherd and its volunteers are hunting down illegal fish traps and working with Italian ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

On Monday, June 9, as the third United Nations Ocean Conference gets underway in Nice, France, President Emmanuel Macron ...

Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once ...

While adult corals build solid structures that are firmly attached to the sea floor, baby corals are not confined to their reefs. They can drift with ocean currents over great distances to new ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 22, 2015 — Three new sets of maps detail the offshore bathymetry, habitats, geology and submarine environment of the seafloor off the coast of San Francisco, Drakes Bay, and ...

Rüpke says, "For example, data collected during transits by German research vessels can be used to map seamounts systematically." "Our vision is to have a complete and freely accessible map of the ...

“The SWOT satellite was a huge jump in our ability to map the seafloor,” said David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. He’s used satellite data to ...