Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Lost for more than 80 years, the severed bow of the legendary USS New Orleans—torn away by a torpedo in one of World War II's ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

They measured quantities of these elements in the deep, abyssal Pacific Ocean (depths below 5,000 metres), sampling the seawater above sea-floor sediments, pore water (seawater trapped between ...

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another.

The Trump administration is considering a first-of-its kind mining project at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But deep-sea mining has raised major environmental questions.

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

In 1979, a seemingly routine deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean turned out to be a landmark event, with consequences that are still being unraveled today. What seemed like a small-scale ...

In 2023, scientists from the Occidental College of Los Angeles collected 36 specimens of sea spider living near methane seeps along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. Upon examining the ...