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

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

Light shines through the water of a rocky cave in the deep sea. Ocean explorer Jon Copley has completed dozens of dives to the darkest corners of the deep sea. Yet he is still amazed every time he ...

For over 150 years, Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of excess heat from greenhouse gases, providing what ...

Vanguard, a new subsea human habitat, will immerse researchers for weeks, allowing them to observe the ocean’s complexity and ...

Resting on the bottom of the ocean are potato-sized nodules of valuable minerals that are more or less up for grabs. Multiple corporations and some nations are racing to build deep-sea drones that can ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

Most sea sponges are simple, yet ancient, animals that live in coral reef ecosystems. They feed by passively filtering ocean ...