Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, researchers discovered some 4,000 marine species, 88% of which were new ...

Malaysia is restarting the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The nation is sending ships and robots into one of the planet’s loneliest stretches of ocean in the hope of solving ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

The recently announced discoveries were made on a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast csiro.au Australian scientists discovered two new marine species: a tiny porcelain ...

Fishing for rock cod remains very much a sure thing for boats all around Monterey Bay. Chris’ Fishing Trips from Monterey continue to post full limits of rockfish for all their forays. Lingcod counts ...

Sometimes the most extraordinary culinary experiences hide in the most ordinary-looking places, and Fishwife in Pacific Grove, California, is the seafood equivalent of finding a pearl in an unassuming ...

The path to the world’s technological future could be found on the deep ocean floor. But that path may come at a high price. The debate centers on critical minerals embedded in rocks on the seabed.