... ) - Microbes have been found living at a record depth of 1.6 km (a mile) beneath the Atlantic seabed in a hint that life might also evolve underground on other planets, scientists said on Thursday.
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday.
The Canadian government will move ahead with plans to use autonomous underwater vehicles to help map the eastern Arctic seabed, research officials say.
... apart by
trawlers - fishing for scallops and flatfish - dragging chains and
cables across the seabed.Investigations using robot submarines have
revealed that serious damage has been inflicted on vast ...
... 10 thousand years ago. The extent of ice covering the continent was much larger than it is today. The seabed troughs and channels that are now exposed provide new clues about the speed and flow of ...
OSLO (Reuters) - The world faces disputes over the seabed from the South China Sea to the North Pole at a May 13 U.N. deadline for claims meant as a milestone toward the final fixing of maritime ...
Researchers for Canada and the United States are working together again this summer to map more of the Arctic seabed, gathering scientific data toward bolstering their own sovereign claims.
CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed...
Climate change will significantly alter Australia's seabed, putting coral reefs and the oil and gas industries at risk, a study has revealed.
... a vast area of the Arctic Ocean as its own are getting some help from the military, which has deployed its own devices to aid researchers in mapping hard-to-reach parts of the high Arctic seabed.
... of different sulfur and iron compounds in the wreck’s timbers during 333 years on the seabed.
“In the Vasa high sulfur concentrations are found only in the surface layers of the timbers, while for ...
... .
Oceans worldwide contain an estimated 100,000 seamounts rising at least one km above the seabed; fewer than 200 have been sampled in any detail.
Undersea mountains can be highly productive and ...
... reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbor.
Scientists have discovered a treasure trove of diverse life on the seafloor off Victoria's surf coast, as well as submerged river systems and lagoons.
... coastal nations agreed on Wednesday to let the U.N. rule on conflicting territorial claims on the region's seabed, which may hold up to one fourth of the world's undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves.
