The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an ...

Historical accounts of vast ocean waters glowing in the dark go back hundreds of years, and researchers are still trying to ...

For centuries, sailors spotted a soft white light across ocean waters, known as "milky seas." A new study examines the ...

Earth was once ruled by giant reptiles. Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of tyrant lizards, crushed bones. Spinosaurus hunted in ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Sea ice reduction happens when more sea ice melts during the summer compared to what freezes during the winter. Last year was Earth's warmest year on record. The Global Carbon Project found that ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

It's probably the largest flood in our planet's history.

Earth's oceans, known for their deep blue hue, could one day undergo color shifts, say scientists. A report based on a study ...

The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's ...