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 ...

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 ...

Hadal zones occupy only 0.25% of the ocean floor but account for the deepest 45% of the ocean, making them the deepest known and least accessible habitats, home to some of the most unusual ...

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 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 ...

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

The ocean twilight zone, or mesopelagic zone, is the area of the ocean 600 to 3,200 feet below the surface. It’s where light begins to disappear, but it’s home to some of the most amazing ...

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 year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.