A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

In June 1982, the BWS and the city Parks Department discovered that Silver Lake reservoir had lost nearly a foot of water ...

Humans have always been a bit obsessed with the places we don’t belong. The sky was off-limits until we built machines to borrow it, and the underwater world still treats us like temporary visitors at ...

The 2025 Ocean Art Photography Competition celebrates life beneath the surface, from intimate encounters to rare marine behaviors and striking flora and fauna.

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...

A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a ...

Brine pools, extremely salty, oxygen-free underwater lakes, are lethal to most marine life but teem with resilient microbes. Found mainly in the Red Sea, Mediterranean, and Gulf of Mexico, they create ...

In this video, I test my newly purchased underwater ROV in a local lake, searching for underwater treasures using the robot arm. After a successful test run in the ocean, this is my first lake ...

Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

A project nearing completion in the Detroit area utilized a custom-built, diver-operated vehicle that can operate underwater and that replaced concrete liners for two raw water tunnels, eliminating ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...

Life in the ocean runs on light. It fuels photosynthesis, shapes food webs and determines where many marine species can live.