Severely Affecting Marine Life In 2022, an ocean eruption apparently left several underwater beings grasping for breath. This eruption occurred due to the Hunga volcano, which released a 37-mile plume ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but ...

This, in turn, would increase the dissolution of calcite shells of microplankton, which are the dominant component of seafloor sediments, leaving behind only nonsoluble clays. The dissolution of ...

May 1, 2009 Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Sediment-profile image of seafloor sediments that have been burrowed and churned by animals. (Credit: Martin Solan) A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the ...

Analysis of seafloor sediment cores taken from Beppu Bay (70m deep) revealed microplastic deposits (MP) increasing from 1960 through 2015. The amount of phytoplankton showed a similar trend ...

Seafloor sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre in the Pacific Ocean contains still-living ancient microbes (colored green in this microscopy image) that are about 101.5 million years old.

As expected, the sediment samples did not contain many bacterial cells to begin with: just 100 to 3,000 per cubic centimeter, which is 10 to 10 million times less than at equivalent depths in more ...

Sediment-profile image of seafloor sediments that have been burrowed and churned by animals. (Credit: Martin Solan) A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the ...

Microbes collected from the seafloor that are thought to be up to 101.5 ... The researchers obtained the samples using a tool that pulls “plugs,” or cylindrical chunks of the seafloor sediment.

Researchers have discovered microplastics buried in seabed sediments deep below the ocean surface that are more than 150 years old. The team identified the tiny plastic pieces in core samples ...