The risks of mining the deep ocean floor are just too high. Australia should back a global moratorium on mining activities at the bottom of the ocean, argue marine ecology experts Professor Jessica ...

A deep sea worm that inhabits hydrothermal vents survives the high levels of toxic arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them in its cells to form a less hazardous mineral. Chaolun Li of ...

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

China's self-developed Haiqin, a 6,000-meter deep-sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV), has successfully completed a deep-sea voyage in the South China Sea, scientists have told Xinhua. The deep-sea ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

Aug. 19 (UPI) --A deep-sea exploration company said it has new data that reveals the likely location of lost aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart's missing plane and will launch a fourth expedition to find ...

Oslo —The world's first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway's coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating ...

Tobias Wedgwood wants to raise £10m to haul a tractor out of the Pacific Ocean [Chris Lockyer/BBC] A plan to rescue a World War Two-era tractor from a sunken US Navy ship has been hatched by a tractor ...

A plan to rescue a World War Two-era tractor from a sunken US Navy ship has been hatched by a tractor fanatic. The never-used International Harvester A-14 is chained to the deck of the USS Hornet, ...

More than 2,000 earthquakes were recorded in one day. An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to volcanologists who are monitoring for activity. The ...

Deep into the ocean’s heart, where sunlight is a forgotten dream, otherworldly lights pulse in rhythm with life’s heartbeat. This captivating spectacle is the product of bioluminescent glows emitted ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research indicates this underwater migration occurred in response to a permanent ...