Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

636. The second ocean steam vessel was the steam brig New York, built at the foot of Newcastle Street, Norfolk, Va., in 1821, by William F. Hunter, ship joiner. She was of 281 tons burden and 50 ...

It carries more than 100 times as much water as all the world's rivers combined. It reaches from the ocean's surface to its bottom, and measures as much as 2,000 kilometers across. It connects the ...

The mystery of the Indian Ocean gravity hole: A chapter in the evolving history of Earth Up to 20 million years ago existed the Indian Ocean gravity hole in that time, while then to-date nothing by ...

“Throughout most of history, mankind had no idea what depths the ocean contained. In a very literal sense, they were unfathomable.” Co-editor Kevin Hardy, a longtime Scripps engineer and ...

The story started with a call from a professor at UC Santa Barbara who had found something during an unrelated underwater research mission. From that tip, ...

Ocean state variables ... An important step in the history of temperature occurred in the 1800s, when the concept of temperature gained a theoretical backing with the development of the science ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A sprawling beach area in Topsail Beach was once the prime vacation spot for African Americans. Edgar Yow, a white Wilmington attorney and former Wilmington mayor, purchased ...