Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

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

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Deep beneath the surface of the Red Sea, scientists discovered something that completely defies the laws of nature: ...

Commissioned in late 2024, Meng Xiang is a 560-foot, 42,600-ton ship with a 36,000 ft deep-sea drill capacity. It can stay at sea for 120 days, house 180 personnel, and includes nine cutting-edge ...

NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders ...

One study published in Science earlier this month found that with 44,000 deep-sea dives, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed — which is roughly the size of Yosemite ...

In 2013, a deep-sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

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 ...