A vast layer of ocean water has begun becoming saltier and denser as Antarctic sea ice shrinks, reversing a decades-long ...

Sea level is defined as the average level of the sea relative to the adjacent land, and it can vary according to climatic conditions. The global sea level has increased by around 90 millimeters since ...

Little is known about the long-term effects of deep-sea mining on the organic matter that supports life on the ...

A study has uncovered a surprising and rapid shift in an important ocean layer which is fed by melted sea ice from Antarctica ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

A publication recently launched by leading European Ocean scientists, titled Navigating the Future VI (NFVI), calls attention to the fact that we do not yet sufficiently consider how climate-induced ...

"That transition took thousands of years, not two decades." ...

India, Nov. 1 -- Scientists have captured rare 4K footage of an unusual deep-sea fish with a transparent head and striking ...

A sharp decline in Antarctic sea ice since 2015 has unexpectedly reversed a long-running freshening trend in Antarctic ...

In the pre-dawn half-light, people sit in chairs and on picnic blankets on the sand of Dixon Park beach in the coastal city of Newcastle. Wearing headphones and gazing at the ocean, they are there for ...