A look at the quest to mine the bottom of the ocean for valuable minerals, the connection between light pollution and allergies and more climate news.

The 5.3-million-year-old ‘whale graveyard’ extends for more than one thousand kilometres and supports entire ocean communities

Learn how likely new Arctic deep-sea species could help researchers map fragile sponge gardens and hydrothermal vents before mining plans return.

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest part. Yet, a small portion of the stirred-up bottom material remains visible in the water at long distances.

NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom trawling for fish and impose a moratorium on ...

Locomotive graveyards, ancient civilizations, felled military vessels, and unbelievably odd marine creatures are just a few macabre and magical wonders living underneath the sea.

In 2022, a deep-sea expedition north of the Hawaiian Islands revealed an ancient dried-up lakebed. At the bottom, there appeared to be a paved yellow brick road. An exploration vessel called the Nautilus had been surveying the Lili’uokalani ridge in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM),

A new study has revealed how even the deepest seafloors are affected by the daily back-and-forth of the tides, and the change of the seasons, and that currents at the bottom of the ocean are far more complicated than previously thought. These findings are ...

The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on Earth, according to a major new study that assessed its potential to transform biotechnology and DNA sequencing technologies.