The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment ...

The "cold seep" ecosystem research facility will be located 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) beneath the surface of the highly ...

Study of 10 million-year-old ferromanganese crusts reveals mysterious beryllium-10 anomaly, opening new pathways for ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

President Trump seems more likely to support deep-sea mineral extraction than President Biden did. But do we need those ocean ...

Militaries and startups use artificial intelligence to sift through vast amounts of data and power autonomous underwater ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

Bottles of Rathfinny Wine Estate's Classic Cuvee wine were sunk to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Norway ...