Gigablue says it has designed particles that when released in the ocean will trap carbon at the bottom of the sea. Gigablue says its work will do nothing less than save ...

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

The meteor IM1 first caught Loeb’s attention through an obscure NASA fireball database under the code “CNEOS 2014-01-08.” ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

Nature They lifted a rock on the ocean floor—what they found was alive and massive Scientists uncover a hidden underwater cave system teeming with giant creatures unlike anything we’ve seen ...

The volcanic rocks they studied should have been about 2.5 million years old, since they rest on seafloor no older than 4.8 million years. But what they found was far more puzzling.

In general, the sedimentary layer thickens with increasing age of the ocean floor, and outcrops of basement rock become sparser before being completely covered by sediment on floor that is more ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 billion years have left an imprint on volcanic rocks formed in island arcs ...

The researchers traveled to the Brucejack gold mine in northwestern British Columbia to study very ancient mineralized rocks and gather samples. Today located on the Earth's surface due to tectonic ...

This summer she spent three weeks off the coast of Chile as the co-principal on a research expedition studying the ocean floor near the Atacama Trench, at depths of more than 9,300 feet. The goal ...