The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The curious minds at Aperture question common assumptions about the ocean’s largest trash zone and what we truly know about it.

The deepest point of the ocean – the Mariana Trench – is 11,034 metres deep. It’s located in the western part of the Pacific Ocean and is a 1,580-mile-long stretch (2,542 kilometres) of ...

The climate crisis poses a threat to the rich biodiversity of life that exists in the ocean’s twilight zone, which exists just beyond the reach of sunlight. Life in this region could be reduced ...

The team examined the chemical composition of ocean sediments near today’s largest ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The team obtained sediment samples—the “history books” of ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, has become the focal point of an extraordinary new discovery. One of the deepest parts of the ocean, this region has long intrigued ...

As the most seismically active regions in the world, oceanic subduction zones show contrasting seismicity in different regions. A review by a team from Nanjing University explored the ...

There's an acidic zone 13,000 feet beneath the ocean surface — and it's getting bigger. News. By Mark John Costello, Peter Townsend Harris published 13 August 2024 ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.