Marine researchers have found 488 distinct species thriving in a methane-rich, deep-sea environment, according to a summary ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...