The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but proof that the abyss is a vast, living engine that rewrites what I think life ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.