In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

Vanguard, a new subsea human habitat, will immerse researchers for weeks, allowing them to observe the ocean’s complexity and ...

Ghost sharks inhabit some of the darkest and least explored regions of the deep sea. Researchers have captured rare footage ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...