Haunting images reveal famous Great Lakes shipwrecks, including the Edmund Fitzgerald, Daniel J. Morrell, Carl D. Bradley and others lost to storms.

A Victorian maritime mystery dating back to the 1870s has finally been solved thanks to seafloor geophysical surveys undertaken off the coast of southern Victoria in preparation for the development of ...

A coal run that vanished in 1877 off the coast of Australia has finally turned up—after a modern hunt for wind power, not shipwrecks. The iron steamer City of Hobart left Newcastle, New South Wales, ...

WASHINGTON - Untapped but technically recoverable oil and natural gas resources in the Outer Continental Shelf hold the potential for 100 years or more of energy production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy ...

How is carbon metabolized and processed in different ecosystems? In a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers led by Joely Maak, the study's first author and ...

China's new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe, or Striver, set a national diving record of 10,909 meters on Tuesday in ...

If I told you that Virginia has a massive stone fortress surrounded by a moat where some of the most pivotal moments in American history unfolded, would you believe me? Fort Monroe in Hampton is that ...

Sixty-two-years ago, during my senior year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I took a marine geology course that quite honestly changed my life. I still have the textbook that I ...

Recent advances in AI are helping scientists unlock new secrets about the Moon’s far side, one of the least understood regions of Earth’s natural satellite. The breakthrough builds on samples and ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts tells how diving to surface the stories of sunken slave shipwrecks has changed her life.