Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows. A study published in the journal Nature found that the site of a ...

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.

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...