With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, sediment cores hold secrets that could reshape how scientists predict Earth's climate ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

"Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic ... the sediment layers have remained undisturbed and have preserved an archive of past ...

Sediments from Pacific Highs preserve vital information on past ocean warming, extinctions, and circulation shifts.

Johanna Weston, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The hadal zone is the deepest layer of the ocean, stretching between 19,700 and 36,000 feet deep. This layer of the ocean mostly includes ...

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean ...