The sea ice surrounding Antarctica may be thicker than previously thought. Earlier estimates using shipboard observations and drill cores had suggested that the Southern Ocean ice pack was thinner than 1 meter on average. New measurements, reported November 24 in Nature Geoscience, show ice floes

Oil that gushed from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon site may be lying low. As much as 16 percent of the approximately 5 million barrels of oil let loose into the Gulf of Mexico may have settled into the seafloor, within a 40-kilometer radius of the damaged oil well. That sunken oil may account for up

Each evening, sunset signals the begin of dinner for billions of wiggling sea monkeys living in the ocean. As these sea monkeys &mdash which are not basically monkeys but a type of shrimp &mdash swarm to the surface in one substantial, culminating force, they may possibly contribute as

  They eat anything that fits in their mouths. They reproduce copiously and adapt effortlessly. And they have become as ubiquitous and pesky as rats — only prettier and more conniving. Nearly three decades after a lone venomous lionfish was spotted in the ocean off Broward County — posing as a bit

  The James Bond lifestyle comes at a price, but if you do want to live like an international spy - and have £1 million ($1.6 million) to spare - then this personal submarine could be perfect for you. Called DeepFlight Super Falcon Mark II, it looks like a combination of a plane and a submarine,