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

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

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

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age drew to a close, global temperatures climbed, and the early ...

For over 150 years, Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of excess heat from greenhouse gases, providing what ...

Plastic waste has haunted the world’s oceans for decades. What you may not realize is that the most dangerous pieces are ...

Texas-based firm Ocean Infinity will send swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles into the southern Indian Ocean in a ...

The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.