An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive ... The station will serve multiple functions, as a base for exploring a novel energy source, discovering new sea life ...

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

China plans a 6,000-foot-deep research base, blending deep-sea science with potential military and resource ambitions. The South China Sea holds vast methane hydrate reserves, and China’s new ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

China has begun construction of a deep-sea research platform in Guangzhou, marking a major step in the country's efforts to explore extreme marine environments and develop sustainable ocean resources.

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

An exploratory expedition describes two deep-sea, low-oxygen ecosystems in the Red Sea, including some surprising fish. The findings are published in PNAS Nexus. Persistent oxygen-depleted zones ...