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 ...

Study identifies a combination of factors that support and maintain the health of marine ecosystems via the churning of the seafloor by invertebrate animals.

Our expedition’s drilling of the seafloor revealed a massive but previously unknown volcanic eruption that took place more than 500,000 years ago.

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 ...

To be sure, although the sediment in which the cells were trapped was up to 100 million years old, the age of individual cells remains uncertain.

This decomposition process appears to have lasted for a period of 40,000 years, ultimately warming the planet by more than 5 degrees Celsius. Sediments far below the seafloor hold evidence of the ...

Mapping the seafloor sediment superhighway Study identifies a combination of factors that support and maintain the health of marine ecosystems via the churning of the seafloor by invertebrate animals.

Even after 100 million years buried in the seafloor, some microbes can wake up. And they’re hungry. An analysis of seafloor sediments dating from 13 million to nearly 102 million years ago found ...

Seafloor sediments tell a 75-year history of marine microplastic pollution The term "microplastic" (MP) was coined in 2004, and marine plastics started attracting public attention.

The PEAT expeditions are recovering a series of continuous historical records in sediments at a number of different geographic locations beneath the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The first research ...

"You know the seafloor sand could be a source for replenishing the beach, you know, naturally as well as artificially. Or the beach can be sending sediment out to the ocean. So it goes back and ...