A ‘slope’ on the ocean surface in the Strait of Gibraltar is lowering the sea level in Europe by 7cm, researchers have discovered. This research will help to more accurately predict future sea ...

As they created their artificial tidal waves, Zhang and his colleagues saw that a layer of water right above the continental slope started flowing as much as 10 times faster than the simulated tides.

Nekton Deep-Ocean Science: 1,000 Feet Below the Atlantic's Surface. ByJim Clash, ... At 280 feet, the Bermuda plateau fell away and angled down a slope at about 40 degrees.

In the Western Pacific around New Guinea, there's a watery hill almost two hundred and fifty feet high. This isn't a hill on the ocean floor, it's a hill in the ocean's surface itself. The slope ...

In 2012 and 2020, ONC scientists took brief detours to revisited the site—located some 4,100 feet below the ocean’s surface—to document the growing sea community living among the whale’s ...

The ocean is a source of life and resilience—for people and cultures, for livelihoods, for climate stability. But it's under ...

When earthquakes strike along the coastline, it isn’t just the shaking that can wreak havoc, but a one-two punch of tremors setting off undersea landslides that may produce the most devastation. That ...

The ocean is vast, deep, and unexplored. When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared three years ago this week, the search brought the ocean’s vastness into sharp relief. This is how deep and ...

A Moment of Science is a daily audio podcast, ... it's a hill in the ocean's surface itself. The slope is very gradual because the hill is hundreds of miles across, ...