The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand ...

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this ...

The expansive underwater canyon continues to fascinate scientists with its intricate geometry.

For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock samples from the Azores Plateau — now 3,000 feet underwater — show evidence of ...

Green agricultural fields occupy the flat land beneath towering cliffs in São Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal. The surrounding ...

The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater mountain in western Europe. Formed where the African and Eurasian tectonic ...

Autonomous underwater vehicles are learning to detect marine radioactivity in real time. The European RAMONES project shows how AI and innovative ...

The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic ...

Rolex celebrates Sylvia Earle’s work and advocacy spanning six decades, which has highlighted the urgent need to protect ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.

As you stand in Horta marina on Faial island, Mount Pico on neighbouring Pico island dominates the horizon. Depending on the grandiosity of your vision, Pico looks like a vast volcano poking its head ...