The movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans and continents -- or carbon cycle -- regulates Earth's climate, with the ocean playing a major role in carbon sequestration. A new study finds ...

The deepest parts of the ocean are the least explored places on the planet. In fact, only about 5 percent of the ocean has been explored at all. From what has been explored, we know that the average ...

The average depth of the ocean is around 12,080 feet. While there are vessels of all sizes, even some of the largest anchor and chain systems, like those found on carriers, only stretch to around ...

Water Selectively Absorbs Light Wavelengths The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light ...

The Ocean is vital for life on Earth as it produces over the half world’s oxygen and it also regulates the climate by absorbing the heat and Carbon dioxide and also it helps in analysing weather ...

Figure 1: Random focusing of a tsunami wave by the weakly fluctuating depth profile of the Indian Ocean. The complexity of the geologic processes responsible for the depth profile of the ocean floor ...

The ocean is a dark, dark place. Below about 656 feet (200 meters), light doesn't penetrate. Considering that the average depth of the ocean is around 14,000 feet (4,267 m), that leaves a lot of room ...