Stepping to the edge of Scripps Pier in La Jolla Shores, 33 feet above the ocean, many of the San Diego junior lifeguards who participated in the annual pier jump July 1 had the same three words ...

Scientists had determined that ocean acidification enters this danger zone or crosses this planetary boundary when the amount ...

Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 feet, as well as nearly half of that above, have breached “safe” levels of acidity, according to findings published on Monday in Global… ...

Formation: The Pacific Ocean began forming about 750 million years ago when the supercontinent Rodinia started breaking apart. It grew as the supercontinents Pangaea and later Gondwana split.

1. Pacific Ocean Size: Largest and deepest ocean, covering more than 63 million square miles and with a maximum depth of about 36,000 feet in the Mariana Trench.

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Vent animals above and below the surface thrive together in unison, depending on vent fluid from below and oxygen in the seawater from above.” Communities of tube worms live beneath the seafloor.

Designs have been unveiled for a boat that takes passengers above and below the ocean. The 28-foot semi-submersible catamaran, named the Platypus, mirrors its namesake by spending time both above ...

These maps show the changes in area of ocean exposed to corrosive bottom waters in 17 different regions. The pre-industrial CCD is dark blue and areas above the lysocline are light blue.

The amount of excess heat (shown as energy) that the upper ocean (above 700 meters), deep ocean (below 700 meters), atmosphere, and Earth have been taking up has increased over the past few decades.