An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles (21km) off the east coast of ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Here, we showed that the microbial community functional composition and structure were dramatically altered in a deep-sea oil plume resulting from the spill. A variety of metabolic genes involved ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption that likely scattered the sharks that normally dwell there.

Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...

Image: Lauren Dauphin, using sea surface salinity data courtesy of ... But the team found that a freshwater plume—including river discharge into the Gulf—created a density gradient between ...

Images showed a huge plume of thick, black smoke and flames rising ... The Stena Immaculate tanker was “anchored off the North Sea coast near Hull … [and] was struck by the container ship ...