"The true cost of mining the deep ocean remains unknown." ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths ...

Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

The International Seabed Authority remains the most important organisation you have never heard of. And Ambassador Duncan ...

This discovery challenges the long-held scientific consensus that oxygen on Earth is produced solely through photosynthesis ...

If you can harken back to your elementary geography class, for a moment, picture the size of Rhode Island on a map. Tiny, rectangular, just a sliver of land on America’s east coast. That miniscule ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of Earth’s most ...

a) Photograph of HV precipitates collected from the Shinkai Seep Field. b) Cross-polarized optical microscope images of precipitates in cross section. c,d) Scanning electron images showing layers ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast, hidden freshwater aquifer beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off the U.S. coast. This immense ...

Huzzah! The mystery of an unidentified golden object that had been discovered on the ocean floor off Alaska’s Pacific Coast in 2023 has been solved.