UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters ...

Far below the familiar blue of the oceans, scientists are uncovering evidence of a vast hidden reservoir of water locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle. Rather than a single underground sea, this ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Not Without Hope, starring Zachary Levi and Josh Duhamel, is a muddled by well-performed real-life story of survival on the open ocean.

Paul Gallico was on board the RMS "Queen Mary" when it almost capsized in 1937. The haunting experience shaped his ...

Earth’s first (water) oceans are thought to have been too acidic for life. A new study has estimated the timelines of the processes that changed this and puts a figure on when they reached the right ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...