Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

The agency is reviewing a permit request from a company that aims to harvest minerals on the Pacific Ocean floor.

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

The deep sea is shrouded in mystery. Researchers make concerning discovery about proposed deep-sea venture: 'A new potential ...

The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...

Scientists have revealed how much of the vast deep ocean floor humankind has observed, and it's a staggeringly small amount. According to a new study published May 7 in the journal Science Advances, ...

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: Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of ...

The Vanguard capsule is an underwater habitat that can fit four people for a week or more. But could this be the future for ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...

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 ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

Ecologists say there is still a lot unknown about the CCZ. It's the size of the continental U.S., more than 10,000 feet deep and its recently become the center point in the debate over what's the best ...