IT is a Friday afternoon, and the sun hangs high over the Yasawa Islands, pouring light across a vast expanse of ocean that ...

Dive into the world of deep sea vents! Uncover unique hydrothermal ecosystems, their formation, and how they challenge our understanding of life's origins.

Scientists have discovered the deepest known animal ecosystem on Earth, thriving almost 10 kilometres beneath the Pacific Ocean where sunlight never reaches. At depths of up to 9,533 metres, ...

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 ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent ...

The deep sea, encompassing the bathyal, abyssal and hadal realms, represents Earth’s largest biome and plays a pivotal role in global biogeochemical cycling, carbon sequestration and biodiversity ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

A Pacific island leader says there were "no consultations" before the U.S. announced swaths of nearby ocean could be auctioned for deep-sea mining exploration, telling AFP the industry faced strong ...

Why are people interested in deep-sea mining? The deep sea holds large quantities of mineral deposits. Some of them exist in potato-sized clumps on the seafloor called “polymetallic nodules,” which ...

Deep-sea mining may generate sediment plumes, destroy habitats and reduce the biodiversity that cascades through the food ...

US agency releases plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed off the coast of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam ...