I let him know that not only was this my first time in Ibiza, it was my first time in Europe. He then proceeded to say that ...

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

The surface of the Earth is about two-thirds water, but how much of the world’s deep seas do you think we’ve explored?

We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent of that ocean is unknown to us. Like ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes and needle-like teeth.

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans. But what does that really mean? “In scientific papers, some people ...

The Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars ventured out to the deep ocean to explore Loki’s Castle, an area of black smoker vents, using an ROV. Sveter via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 ...

Four kilometres below the surface of the Tasman Sea is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn voyage, the CSIRO's Research Vessel Investigator took a closer look.

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They have found that the tracks of the 100-tonne machine that was sent down to ...

Some are tens of millions of years old. The process to collect those nodules, called deep-sea mining, has been described as “ a $20 trillion opportunity.” ...

The Dead Sea in Israel is over 1,400 feet below sea level, but the Challenger Deep is 35,876 feet down at its lowest point. While most of the ocean bottom is nowhere near that low, life on land ...