The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

“Most of our deep-sea exploration equipment is large, noisy and uses bright lights if we are trying to film animals,” Bolsted writes on The Conversation. Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Schmidt Ocean ...