We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

The move would enable miners to bypass the ISA and obtain permits from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, ...

The Black Sea and Mediterranean Seas are both almost ... The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys of the deep ocean floor, and these studies drove geologists to finally accept ...

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns unilateral action would violate international law and undermine multilateral ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

The White House considers an executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining permits, bypassing the UN review. This effort aims ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider ... and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals ...