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

Beneath the ocean surface, a global mission is underway that could reshape our understanding of our planet. Inspired by Sir ...

The Dead Sea in Israel is over 1,400 feet below sea level, but the Challenger Deep is 35,876 feet down at its lowest point.

This heat map shows the concentration of known deep-sea dives with visual observations in the North Atlantic. Ocean Discovery League. But what does Bell’s “0.001 percent” figure really mean?

Most of the seafloor explored during Dive 07 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration was covered with ... or they use remote-operated vehicles to collect samples and map the ocean ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have ...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) from the University of Sydney will be taking a deep dive in the oceans surrounding Norfolk Island to collect high-resolution seafloor images. The images will then ...

Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once living) material washed in from land. When stored in the marine environment, ...

Citation: Global effort maps microplastics' path through critical ocean systems (2025, April ... indicating potential impacts on oceanic carbon cycling and deep-sea biogeochemical processes.