Credit: Shutterstock A Korean icebreaker made its way to one of the most remote parts of the ocean in 2011 and 2013, an area near Antarctica and south of New Zealand. There it dredged up material from the seafloor that revealed a previously unknown region of Earth’s molten deeps. Scientists analyzed a […]
Around 320 million years ago, the supercontinent Pangea formed. Credit: Shutterstock The ancient supercontinent of Rodinia turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests. Rodinia was a supercontinent that preceded the more famous Pangea, which existed between 320 million and 170 […]
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, shown here, serves as a conveyor belt that transports heat and pulls carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean. (Credit: R. Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Science/USGCR) Massive volumes of water circulate throughout the Atlantic Ocean and serve as the central drivers of Earth’s climate. […]
Scientists on the ocean drilling expedition will explore the remote Amundsen Sea off Antarctica. Credit: NASA The West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Amundsen Sea off Antarctica could play a pivotal role in future sea level rise, but many questions remain unanswered, scientists say. Now, researchers taking part in an […]
The submersible Alvin about 8,500 feet down, studying seafloor volcanoes and eruptions. Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutio, Daniel Fornari – WHOI-MISO Facility (www.whoi.edu/miso) and National Science Foundation Staring up into the night sky as a kid and wondering what was out there started my journey to a career that involves […]
The Ocean Zephyr stands docked in Bremerhaven, Germany, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019. The Britain-based Nekton Mission will use submarines to go 300 meters below the surface and sonar equipment to survey depths of up to 2,000 meters once the Ocean Zephyr reaches the Seychelles. Final preparations were being made Thursday […]
Credit: Shutterstock The ocean is the hottest it’s ever been, and no, this is not normal. A new report released in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on Jan. 15 reveals that ocean temperatures in 2018 reached their highest point since accurate measurements first began in the 1950s. The heat increase in […]
Where do the ocean waters that wash the Gold Coast come from? Flickr/LJ Mears , CC BY-NC-SA Many people in Australia will head to the beach this summer and that’ll most likely include a dip or a plunge into the sea. But have you ever wondered where those ocean waters come from, […]
The submersible for the Five Deeps Expedition during its testing. Credit: The Five Deeps Expedition Explorer and multimillionaire Victor Vescovo just reached the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean — the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. Vescovo became the first person to do so on a solo mission in […]
In the 1940s, Navy scientists were forbidden from sharing key oceanographic data, such as bathymetric measurements, with scientists who lacked a security clearance. Here, the bathymetry of Mona Passage from the U.S. Geological Survey. Credit: USGS WASHINGTON — Military secrecy in the U.S. Navy after the end of World War […]