Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters.

About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5% of all Earth’s water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in ...

For decades, wildlife researchers have dreamed of building an “Internet of Animals”—a big-data system that monitors and ...

On March 8, 2014, a passenger plane bound for Beijing took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Less than two hours later, it vanished from radar while over the Indian Ocean. The ...

This mission builds on a successful hybrid crewed/uncrewed survey completed last year by Woolpert and Chance Maritime.

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

Woolpert is conducting its first fully uncrewed offshore hydrographic survey mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Since late 2023, the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland has erupted repeatedly, forcing evacuations from the fishing ...

China just rolled out a kind of treasure map for the deep ocean, and it's about a lot more than metals. A state research agency says its new seabed atlas charts where key minerals like cobalt, nickel, ...