Climate scientists like to keep their accounting books neat and balanced. As climate change alters energy flows all across ...

Two new studies that relied on data from a fleet of diving robots show how climate change is altering ocean movements in ways ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone, because it's too deep for sunlight to reach. Most animals here are much smaller ...

Far out in the North Atlantic, roughly 590 miles east of Florida, a sprawling patch of water drifts in slow rotation. It ...

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

The carbon dioxide we pump into the air is seeping into the oceans and slowly acidifying them. One hundred years from now, ...

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Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

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