Researchers recently discovered several new deep-water species, including sharks, during a three-month expedition in Papua New Guinea. The team explored an area known as the Coral Triangle, which ...

Thanks to the Darwin Plus program, the myriad of amazing marine life in the Caribbean deep sea - including sharks - is about to come to light. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

According to the brief, around 28,000 deep-sea creatures have been identified and named, but its authors estimated that there are 2.2 million species that scientists have yet to identify—some of ...

A new report contends that deep sea mining is not only an environmental risk, it’s also not going to help meet the world’s renewable energy needs.

Researchers sequenced DNA from deep-sea sediments around the world and found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than there is higher up in the ocean. What's more, nearly ...

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.

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago. The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared with ...

They had the benefit of time, Herndl says, on voyages that were just for deep-sea scientists—with no pesky shallow water, algae-studying scientists getting impatient while they performed ...

Deep sea mining threatens sea life, environmentalists say. California law has a solution As mining companies look to the seafloor for critical metals, environmentalists say California’s Right to ...