A deep sea exploration and monitoring station a mile deep in the contested South China Sea could also cement China as a ...

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

SINGAPORE, March 27 (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor.

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 ...

Japanese researchers are contributing to affordable technology and informing international guidelines on how to monitor the impact of exploration in the ocean’s depths. Valuable minerals have ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned on Wednesday that full recovery may ...

A beautiful, innovative showcase for animation...and one unexpected horror. Director Tian Xiaopeng uses this mix of realistic and illustrative animation to tell the story of Shenxiu (Wang Ting Wen ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

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 ...