A team of scientists in Switzerland have discovered mysterious spots, which they dubbed as a sunken world, deep in the bosom ...

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

La Niña is the opposing end of the spectrum from El Nino, an oscillation between cooler and warmer than normal waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that ... snowpack depth over much of the ...

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

Wind is astonishing. It has no borders, no agenda, no desires, no prejudices. It might caress your face or slap it, but there ...

Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific ... the ocean waves. Its eruption won’t trigger a tsunami or a massive land-based earthquake because of its depth and ...

The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was detected at 7:02 a.m. Friday about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) northwest of San Francisco with a depth of 12 miles (19 kilometers).

However, only a few of them are capable of scooping up water from the Pacific Ocean. So-called "Super Scooper ... Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Megonigal, who has studied how ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater ... a research associate at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center. “We’re interested in the tectonics of the ...