Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an "in-situ" fire pool that stops the ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

It's not always easy to spot from shore, but hundreds of lakes that used to run clear are slowly turning darker. According to ...

It’s hard to describe the Maldives without resorting to superlatives or clichés because all of them are true: the powder-soft ...

The Florida Current, a powerful flow of warm water threading through the narrow Straits of Florida, acts as the opening valve ...

Extreme rainfall is reshaping coastal waters along South Korea's shoreline, flushing nutrients from land into the sea and fueling the growth of algal blooms. A new multi-year study, published in ...

Harry O'Mara, Luis Enrique Rosas Hernandaz, Sachini Withanage, Hemanta Pradhan and James Mangum share what they have been able to accomplish with the support of the Hughes family in the following ...

Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.

In a recent paper published in Geology, scientists propose that certain kinds of wrinkle structures in sedimentary rock are the remnants of ancient microbial communites, similar to those found in deep ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...