Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen.

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures clinging to their sides. Unlike mountains on land that dare climbers ...

Acadia covers about 47,000 acres where the mountains meet the sea on the rocky Maine coast. By comparison, the top-drawing park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, stretches over more than ...

Week 2 at sea has been all about survival - living off what the land and ocean provide. From foraging along remote shorelines to fishing in open waters, I’ve been pushing myself to rely on ...

What you can learn from an ocean. ... we’d be steaming back to Mauritius after a month at sea. Until we arrived, ... transformed this obscure underwater mountain into a place I felt connected to.

Off southern Tasmania, at depths between 700 and 1,500 metrers (2,300 and 5000 feet,) more than 100 undersea mountains provide rocky pedestals for deep-sea coral reefs. Unlike shallow tropical ...

Each ocean basin has a unique outline shape, but all have abundant underwater landscape features much like the continents, including mountain ranges, hills, valleys, flat plains and undersea canyons.

A sea breeze is when cool ocean air is drawing to the land because of high pressure over the ocean and low pressure over land. You’ve guessed it, a land breeze is the exact opposite.

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

At the height of the last Ice Age, 20,000 years ago, global sea level was a full 120 meters lower than today, because so much of the ocean's water was locked up in the huge ice sheets covering ...

Our oceans are in deep trouble – a ‘mountains to sea’ approach could make a real difference Published: June 7, 2023 12:46am EDT Karen Fisher , University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau ...