Earth's surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet's largest ecosystem. Researchers at the non-profit Ocean Discovery League, the ...

Being land mammals, we’ve known for a while that Earth’s surface is about two-thirds covered in water, but how much of the world’s deep seas do you think we’ve explored? As she explains, “We hear, ‘We ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study revealed that humans have "directly observed" less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, despite the oceans covering over 70% of Earth's surface. The study, published in ...

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New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most remote parts of the ocean around Antarctica and the strange creatures that live ...

For decades, many chemical companies, as well as the U.S. military, treated the waters off the coast of southern California as a toxic dumping ground, creating 14 sites where chemicals like DDT were ...

In the new work, the researchers considered various possible initial conditions for the area and ages of ocean crust, as well as crust destruction rates, calculating that the ancient seafloor ...

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Earth's surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet's largest ecosystem. Researchers at the non-profit Ocean Discovery League, the ...