Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what ...

The deep ocean is about as mysterious as the depths of outer space, and it's home to some bizarre finds, from tiny angelic ...

Hadal dive with manned submersible Fendouzhe. This figure is created to depict these remarkable ecosystems, forming a "river" of chemosynthetic communities at the bottom of hadal trench - painting the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean surface. The pressure down there ...

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I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...