"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules ...

Deep beneath Greenland’s vast ice sheet, scientists are uncovering a hidden source of heat that could accelerate melting and unsettle long term sea level projections. New three dimensional models of ...

In the far North Atlantic, a rapid and little‑noticed rise in sea level is sending signals that reach all the way to American shorelines. Between 2017 and 2025, the Labrador Sea — a deep, cold basin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images When polar ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...