A research team led by Prof. QIAN Peiyuan, Chair Professor of the Department of Ocean Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ...

Why do a 'water surface' and 'shoreline' exist on the ocean floor?The ocean floor is filled with the same seawater everywhere ...

Deep in the peat of a calcareous fen in Ontario, Canada, methane is quietly accumulating in bubbles trapped beneath the ...

Deep-sea holobionts adapt to extreme environmental fluctuations, but the molecular mechanisms underlying resilience remain ...

By Tom Aris in Bangkok As governments around the world worry about energy security and gas producers spend billions ...

Research from Caltech indicates that a significant carbon signal may arise from local geological processes instead of global ...

Only 20 types of sea spider have been documented in the Salish Sea region. One of the newly discovered species has been named after the spines covering its lower legs. The other was named after an ...

The stove was off, the kitchen was quiet, and the gas was still moving. Researchers sealed a kitchen in plastic sheeting and waited. They were not cooking anything. What they measured in homes across ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University geologist and doctoral student will descend almost 1 mile beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean this fall as part of an international research team ...

A remotely operated robot descending more than 4,200 feet beneath the sea off Papua New Guinea uncovered something scientists had never documented before: a hot hydrothermal vent just centimeters from ...

The deep-sea robot Sentry is the size of a 3,000-pound car, but nimble enough to spot tiny bubbles rising from the ocean floor. Early last summer, Sentry patrolled in tight survey grids off the ...