Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations. These seals are acting as "smart sensors," revealing critical data about an ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Big improvements are coming soon to Coastal Highway in Ocean City, Maryland, as the MD 528 project — part of the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration's (MDOT-SHA ...

As the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) approaches halfway, inclusive input on progress and innovative approaches to achieving ocean sustainability is ...

Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity. Our planet's interior is much too deep and hot to ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science ... project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...