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

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

Scientists delving into the unexplored regions of the Red Sea have uncovered perilous natural traps on the ocean floor. They identified brine pools located nearly 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

disturbing the sediments that accumulate there…Not so with the brine pools. Here, any sedimentary layers that settle to the ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and sharks, a major piece of industry-funded research found Thursday.

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...

Later, the Deep-Sea Drilling Project in 1968 recovered highly diverse core material from subsurface sediments and the ocean crust, which precipitated a new perception of the ocean floor as a ...

A sea creature was spotted with a “deep gash” off the coast of Alaska, and now rangers are looking for answers. On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and ...