Ocean

Sea snakes appear more skillful under water than believed. New research reveals unique dive styles, energy-saving glides, and curious wiggles improving hunting success.

Why is the ocean salty? Easy science facts kids will love

Oceans are salty because rivers carry minerals like sodium and chloride from rocks on land, gradually adding salt over millions of years. Here’s all you need to know about why the sea tastes salty and how it affects life beneath the waves.

Deep beneath the ocean might lie alien life amid dark oxygen, says new study

A team of scientists, including researchers from Boston University, recently uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held belief that oxygen production is solely tied to sunlight.

Deepest 'blue hole' discovered in abyss at 1,300 feet. It's bottom hasn't been reached yet

Blue holes are sprawling sinkholes, often hundreds of feet deep and equally wide, remain enigmatic due to their inhospitable conditions.

Bloodsucking sea creature resembling 'Dune' sandworms washes ashore in UK

Photographs depict a creature with an eel-like body adorned with rows of teeth reminiscent of Pennywise from Stephen King's horror classic 'IT.'

Titanic Tourist Submarine: Why was it hard to rescue Titan submersible?

The Titanic tourist submersible, which vanished during a voyage to the 111-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, imploded, and the 5 people onboard are presumed dead. The US Coast Guard said that an underwater vessel has located a debris field near the Titanic in the search for the missing submersible. The 23,000-pound vessel named Titan was owned by OceanGate Expeditions. So, why was it tough to find the Titan sub in 5 days and what safety concerns an ex-OceanGate employee had raised for the Titan vessel in 2018? Watch to find out.

A landmark UN treaty is poised to curb exploitation of the ocean

The ocean supplies half the planet’s oxygen, absorbs more than a third of carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and feeds billions of people.

A look at the annual divergence of global ocean surface temperature from 20th century average

Since the 1980s, annual average temperatures of the oceans’ surfaces have been diverging from the 20th century average more and more. While the annual divergence fluctuates, the trend is definitely upward.

Subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa deemed potentially 'habitable'

Europa, with an ocean hidden beneath a thick shell of ice, long has been viewed as a potential habitat for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, alongside other candidates such as Mars and Saturn's moon Enceladus. A new study presented on Wednesday at a geoscience conference underscores its potential.

Global warming: By 2100, oceans would become greener and bluer

Researchers predicted that the global temperature too will rise by 3 degrees Celsius till 2100

NASA's undersea mission Neemo-22 to simulate Mars Exploration

The crew will test time delays in communication, simulate spacewalks, and evaluate a variety of tools and procedures to be used in future space missions

Hungry sea otters help keep oceans healthy: study

Sea otters are warding off the accumulation of acidic carbon dioxide in Alaska's waters by preying on sea urchins that feed on underwater kelp beds vital to the oceans' health, according to a study.

Japan stops nuclear plant leak; crisis far from over

Japan stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea on Wednesday from a crippled nuclear plant and acknowledged it could have given more information to neighbouring countries about contamination in the ocean.