We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

OceanX and OceanQuest “Around Africa Expedition” continues its groundbreaking mission with its latest stop at Mindelo, located on São Vicente Island in Cabo Verde. This next phase of the four-month ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Environment and Geography.

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. Dozens of ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The hadal zone, defined as ocean regions deeper than 6,000 meters ... used by hadal microorganisms to survive in extreme high-pressure, low-temperature and low-nutrient environments. "The extreme ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...