A striking image captured by Google Earth shows Earth from a perspective that reveals the planet’s vast blue surface in ...

There is so much salt that if you were able to extract it all from the ocean and pile it up on the land, you would be able to cover the entire land mass of our planet . It wouldn’t be a thin layer, ...

After almost 100 years on planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough marks his birthday today with a stark warning that the oceans ...

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Professor Ric Williams, from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, contributed to the ocean component of the study. He collaborated with Professor Ed ...

OCEAN CITY, Md.– A snake materializing from the ocean isn't typical for a beach visit in Maryland, but that was the case last weekend. On Saturday, beachgoers in Ocean City were shocked when a large ...

It occurred about 300 kilometers southwest of Invercargill, 12 kilometers beneath the ocean floor. Shortly after, the USGS recorded a second, stronger quake measuring 6.8 in the Macquarie Island ...

Now, only a few months later, a new team of scientists exploring the Antarctic Ocean floor has captured and documented several strange species that call the cold floor home. The crew on the RSV ...

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Geographically known as Sycamore Knoll, the natural underwater structure looks like a bump pushing up from the ocean floor ... this year featured a Google Earth image of Sycamore Knoll with ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at accelerating the collection of critical minerals from the ocean floor to enhance ... and rare earth elements, which are ...

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, ...