China has officially approved the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, marking a significant ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Scientists will be able to work for up to a month in the facility that will be anchored 2,000 metres below the surface.

The rare site was about two million years old beneath thousands of feet under the Atlantic Ocean and may contain secrets of ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The office of the Weather Service in Bismarck, N.D., described the conditions as “life threatening,” cautioning that wind ...

Arctic Cyclones Could Be Missing Link in Sea Ice Depletion Models Feb. 12, 2025 — A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones.

Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, have found the ... to pick up neutrinos in the deep ocean. Installation of the ...

One major concern is that of declining sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. During the winter months ... which are responsible for moving cold, deep ocean water to the surface. With less cold water ...

New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic's Melting Ice Feb. 10 ... 2025 — New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...