Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Curious deep-sea fish and crustaceans swim through the frigid waters, tiny alien-looking worms burrow through the sediment as vibrant yellow and purple sea cucumbers rove over the surface, while the ...

AN examination of deep-sea sediments deposited south of Australia and Sumatra during and after the last polarity reversal of the Earth's magnetic field resulted in the discovery of a zone ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature, co-led by the ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. Fixing them keeps us all connected – and has changed our understanding of the ocean.

A new study documents how a group of deep-sea researchers unknowingly scooped up a megalodon tooth from the ocean floor in June 2022.

Plans to extract minerals from the ocean floor are expected to be put on hold next week at a meeting of the U.N. body regulating the sector, with environmental and economic risks threatening to ...

These impacts in combination are of deep concern to many people who study the deep sea. Who owns the seafloor? The legalities of mining the deep sea are remarkably complex, involving a number of ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

So if we are going to intervene in the deep sea for deep sea mining, we will destroy this interface between the water and the sediment, which is very old,” said Mulsow.