(THE CONVERSATION) It’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floor. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution on an expedition to the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015. Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong via ...

Scientists discovered massive volcanic rubble, breccia, on the South Atlantic seabed. This porous rock traps far more carbon ...

Human imagination has long been captivated by the idea of venturing below the Earth’s surface into a hidden, mysterious realm. This fascination is evident in literature spanning decades, like the ...

Swedish drilling vessel, Vidar Viking, led the Arctic Coring Expedition, when scientists set out to retrieve subseafloor sediment records to support their investigations into climate change. Click ...

Some scientists think hydrothermal vents may have given rise to life on Earth. And the signals to life's origins could be locked inside molecules deep underground. A group of scientists are looking ...

Global Declaration endorsed to advance scientific ocean drilling UNOC 2025 side event underscores the critical role of sub-seafloor research in Earth and ocean science This event, titled ...

Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges reviews the scientific accomplishments of U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling over the past four decades. The report evaluates how the ...

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as ...

(CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced an executive action that will permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be ...