The phenomenon of 'dark oxygen,' whereby deep-sea metallic nodules generate oxygen without sunlight, is reshaping our ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

Curls are seen and closely observed by many as France, Japan, and the United States are above board in an 11-day multi-large ...

New Zealand is considering withdrawing its support for an international ban on deep-sea mining, the country's resources ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures ...

No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

Pacific flatnose fish observed at a depth ... At the same time, about 85 per cent of the ocean’s accumulation of sea-floor carbon occurs on the continental margins, where biological matter ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings ...

On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there was more.

They found evidence that naturally occurring “battery rocks” on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, some 13,000 feet below the surface, were producing oxygen. These potato-sized lumps of metal ...

Dark oxygen produced on the floor of the ocean is challenging ... The three-year research initiative will focus on deep-sea areas in the Pacific Ocean, including parts of the hadal zone, which ...