A scientist made a disturbing discovery at the bottom of Challenger Deep which is 35,000 ft below sea level, showing climate ...

In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

The mysterious deep sea creature the Greenland shark swims around in the 'midnight zone, and new footage has revealed it in ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...