Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

American company Saildrone says the Surveyor uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) conducted a first of its kind autonomous ...

"But given how little we've seen and how biased it is, we can't really give you a global map of all the habitats of the deep sea, because we just haven't been to all of them," she says. Past ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Marine experts say governments must protect fragile ecosystems from destructive practices such as bottom trawling and deep ...

This heat map shows the concentration of known deep-sea dives with visual observations in U.S. exclusive economic zones. But what does Bell’s “0.001 percent” figure really mean? Do we truly ...

Humanity has only explored 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a May 2025 study. Credit - Getty Images The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track ...

A Newsweek map shows the Chinese ship was outside the ... The "most obvious" reason for China to carry out deep-sea research off Australia and New Zealand would be to facilitate its submarine ...

Scientists have a new ally helping them explore the ocean’s seabeds–sea lions. A team in Australia ... It is also simply difficult for humans to get to deep and remote offshore habitats ...