Expedition 405 of the International Ocean Discovery Programme embarked on a mission to the Japan Trench, where scientists ...

Expedition 405 drilled into Japan Trench fault, site of 2011 quake, collecting cores and data to learn how massive earthquakes and tsunamis are triggered.

A team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of Earth's crust in Japan and neighboring regions. The so-called same-dip double subduction ...

A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth's crust ...

On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku mega-earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami. At ...

Study shows how rising oxygen levels in ancient oceans fueled marine evolution and species diversity, linking land plants to ocean health.

The work links a permanent oxygen boost in the Middle Devonian, roughly 393–382 million years ago, to the colonization of ...

Ancient forests may have fueled a deep-sea oxygen boost nearly 390 million years ago, unlocking evolutionary opportunities ...

In March 1979, a 9-meter-wide prototype mining machine rolled across the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the eastern Pacific Ocean—an area now central to the global push for deep-sea mining. Its ...

Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...