No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, China's foreign ministry said on ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery of "dark oxygen" 4,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean. This oxygen forms without ...

How deep does the ocean go ... plate tectonics. The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through. These trenches mark areas where ...

The robot has already ridden with two of China's most advanced crewed submersibles — Shenhai Yongshi, or Deep-Sea Warrior, and Fendouzhe, or Striver — and has carried out 14 seabed trips to check its ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on Earth — the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, according to a ...

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic species. Campaigners warn that mining in the waters between Hawaii and ...

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

A new desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an ...