The Marine Invasions Research Lab, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is the nation’s largest program dedicated to monitoring the ocean and coastal regions for invasions by ...

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found an unexpected surge of the radioactive ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment hauled up from a record 8km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Study of 10 million-year-old ferromanganese crusts reveals mysterious beryllium-10 anomaly, opening new pathways for ...

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 ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

HMS Terror was an English warship that was lost to the depths of the ocean in 1845. Originally launched in … Continue reading ...

For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that ...

Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth's crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the environment, ...