Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

Discoveries at the Challenger Deep have been remarkable ... was captured in the deep sea near Japan in 2012, according to NOAA. A new world also opened in the 1970s, Feldman said, when “an ...

But the Challenger Deep lies even further — in ... Objects of interest include the submerged ecosystem and its life-forms, such as deep-sea shrimp and crabs, and — higher up in the water ...

Wright's task was to bring back the first high-resolution mapping of Challenger Deep. Currently, less than a quarter of the global sea floor is mapped "to sufficient detail," she said. Last year ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

As secretary-general of the ISA, I am confident that we are on track to deliver a strong, science-based regulatory regime ...

Subduction is the process of one tectonic plate sinking beneath another plate, forming a deep-sea trench. The Challenger Deep is intriguing because it lies near the oldest Pacific oceanic crust that ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Discoveries at the Challenger Deep have included colorful rocky outcrops and bottom-dwelling sea cucumbers. A series of undersea mud volcanoes and hydrothermal vents in the Mariana Trench also ...