Antarctica sits on a hotbed of methane gas. The cracks erupting in its seafloor are causing it to burst out and rise to the ...

The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

In this episode of Finding MH370, the search for the missing aircraft returns once more to the ocean floor. Investigators and ...

A recent study provides hints into their toxic contents, but UC Santa Barbara’s David Valentine is “not entirely sold that they really know what's in the barrels.” ...

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

Logging hasn't begun yet, but the Oregon-based company won a contract years ago to carry out the Chilkat Valley’s largest ...