Sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when sealed off from the surface by a thick layer of ice.

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

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 ...

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

Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

The Arctic Ocean is more than just icy waters, it harbors vibrant ecosystems — but it also harbors valuable oil, gas, and ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...