Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution?
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...
Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor
NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...
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Global sea levels rose a whopping 125 feet after the last ice age
Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...
Core samples from Greenland's seabed provide first historical overview of plastic pollution
By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...
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Ocean dumping or climate solution? Growing industry bets on ocean to capture carbon
From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change.Whether it's ...
How is Ocean Weather Affected by the Atmosphere?
New research has uncovered surprising insights into the relationship between atmospheric winds and ocean eddies, reshaping previous assumptions about how they interact. Contrary to earlier beliefs ...