Scientists discovered that extreme deep-sea pressure squeezes valuable nutrients out of sinking organic particles, providing ...

Ocean warming triggered more than 200 marine impacts worldwide, many occurring in cooler months that monitoring programs often overlook.

Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency from the industry to help mitigate the harms. Noise in the deep ocean can ...

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme scenario to understand how ocean biology shapes the past, present, and future ...

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

A new use has emerged for a technology revolutionizing ocean research, led by marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. The research ...

With this jaw-dropping image (pun intended) of a rare Bryde’s whale about to consume a heart-shaped baitball, photographer Rafael Fernández Caballero has been named the Ocean Photographer of the Year ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it. Searching for life in ...

Shipping is one of the main sources of human-made sound in the ocean. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, ...

A marine iguana ‘mid-sneeze’, a troupe of skeleton shrimps that has colonized a gorgonian coral and a spaceship-like jellyfish seemingly departing Earth’s atmosphere are among the wonderful finalists ...