Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so ...

The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030, but is it a possible endeavour – and what have they found so far?

The Indian Ocean region is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. From a relatively peripheral theater, it has now transitioned into a site of intense strategic competition, expanding ...

Almost 12 years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board, the search for the Boeing 777's wreckage was scheduled to resume Tuesday in the Indian Ocean ...

This dive wasn’t about speed or depth records. It was about exploration along the ocean floor. Moving slowly revealed marine life most swimmers never notice. The sea floor tells its own story. Spring ...

A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ...

Malaysia is restarting the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The nation is sending ships and robots into one of the planet’s loneliest stretches of ocean in the hope of solving ...

Capturing the first underwater color photographs was no mean feat and involved powerful explosives as well as hours and hours of waiting. Fish swim over a small head of brain coral and before massive ...

Negative consequences of deep ocean mining activity are no longer found only on the seafloor. This controversial practice has now become a midwater problem as well, with potential impacts reaching ...

A warplane encrusted with coral lies upside down on the seafloor of Saipan’s harbor, its landing struts thrust awkwardly upward as colorful fish weave in and out of the exposed fuselage, engine and ...