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Underwater Volcanoes Off the U.S. Pacific Coast Are More Active Than Anyone Previously Understood

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

A volcano the size of a small city is located about 300 miles off the…

American Samoa’s Ocean Floor Contains Minerals Worth Billions , Local Communities Were the Last to Find Out

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

The ocean is everywhere when you stand in Pago Pago Harbor on a clear morning.…

BOEM Is Fast-Tracking Seabed Leases Across Five U.S. Ocean Zones Simultaneously. Here’s the Map Nobody Showed You

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

The public rarely pays much attention to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. It is…

Columbia University Researchers Are Listening to the Deep Ocean — What They’re Hearing Should Concern Everyone

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

Researchers are examining recordings made at the ocean’s bottom in the acoustics lab at Lamont-Doherty…

Satellite Measurements Show Sea Level Rise Has Doubled in Speed — and the Numbers Are Getting Harder to Ignore

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is currently over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of…

Is New Orleans Below Sea Level? Yes — and in Some Places, It’s 12 Feet Below and Still Sinking

By Derrick LesterJune 2, 2026

It feels completely normal to stand on Decatur Street in the French Quarter on a…

The United States Has Mapped Less Than 25 Percent of Its Own Ocean Floor, That Is Finally Changing.

By Derrick LesterJune 1, 2026

A research ship is dragging a sound pulse across the water somewhere off the coast…

The Mariana Trench Is Being Industrialized — and American Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm

By Derrick LesterJune 1, 2026

Last spring, in a small conference room at Scripps, a marine biologist who has spent…

The Race to Own the Deep: How American Companies Are Staking Claims on Ocean Floor Nobody Has Ever Seen

By Derrick LesterJune 1, 2026

Two miles below the surface of the Pacific, somewhere between Hawaii and Mexico, the seafloor…

How Grazing Cattle Benefit Solar Farms—And Why Farmers Are Calling It “A Blessing”

By Derrick LesterJune 1, 2026

Three farm dogs named Honey, Junior, and Roxy were keeping watch over over a thousand…

Browsing: Nature

Underwater Volcanoes Off the U.S. Pacific Coast Are More Active Than Anyone Previously Understood

American Samoa’s Ocean Floor Contains Minerals Worth Billions , Local Communities Were the Last to Find Out

BOEM Is Fast-Tracking Seabed Leases Across Five U.S. Ocean Zones Simultaneously. Here’s the Map Nobody Showed You

Columbia University Researchers Are Listening to the Deep Ocean — What They’re Hearing Should Concern Everyone

Satellite Measurements Show Sea Level Rise Has Doubled in Speed — and the Numbers Are Getting Harder to Ignore

Is New Orleans Below Sea Level? Yes — and in Some Places, It’s 12 Feet Below and Still Sinking

The United States Has Mapped Less Than 25 Percent of Its Own Ocean Floor, That Is Finally Changing.

The Mariana Trench Is Being Industrialized — and American Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm

The Race to Own the Deep: How American Companies Are Staking Claims on Ocean Floor Nobody Has Ever Seen

How Grazing Cattle Benefit Solar Farms—And Why Farmers Are Calling It “A Blessing”

The Death Ball Sponge and the Octopus: A Rare Glimpse Into the Galapagos’ Newest Ecosystem

The Ocean Observing System That NOAA Relies On Is Failing — and the Consequences Could Be Catastrophic for Climate Science

The U.S. Is the Only Major Economy Without a National Deep-Sea Research Strategy. That Is an Enormous Problem.

The 50-Year Acoustic Leap: How RESON’s Sound Wave Technology Transformed Our Understanding of Underwater Landscapes

The Ocean Carbon Sink That Made Climate Action Look Achievable Is Now Showing Signs of Saturation

The Southern Ocean Is Freshening at a Rate That Scientists Say Will Shut Down a Critical Carbon Pump by 2060

The Deep-Sea Robot That Got Stranded on the Pacific Floor Last Year Is Still Down There. Nobody’s Going Back for It.

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The 50-Year Acoustic Leap: How RESON’s Sound Wave Technology Transformed Our Understanding of Underwater Landscapes

The Ocean Carbon Sink That Made Climate Action Look Achievable Is Now Showing Signs of Saturation

The Southern Ocean Is Freshening at a Rate That Scientists Say Will Shut Down a Critical Carbon Pump by 2060

The Deep-Sea Robot That Got Stranded on the Pacific Floor Last Year Is Still Down There. Nobody’s Going Back for It.

Beyond the Twilight Zone: The Secretive Communities Flourishing Four Miles Beneath the Surface

A Cornell University Lab Just Developed a Bioacoustic Sensor Small Enough to Attach to a Deep-Sea Fish Without Disturbing Its Behavior