In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone exists in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico and has seen a large amount of interest for its potential for deep-sea mining. To mitigate the impact this would have ...

The new finding, made by researchers in a new era for marine biology, is the first such discovery of footage of an ...

(CNN) — 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.

Thirty-seven years ago, the Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets plummeted to the seafloor. It settled a mile beneath the ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

A mysterious deep-sea squid filmed 4.1 km below the Pacific can disguise itself as the ocean floor, raising new questions ...

Hidden in volcanic lakes and deep-sea vents, scientists have discovered tough new DNA-binding proteins built to survive ...

From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...

Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations ...

A new comprehensive study released today by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS), in collaboration with Greenpeace ...