Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
Beijing now has the power to disrupt global communications after scientists revealed a device that can sever undersea cables.
While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.
The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.
An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...
The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...
The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...
Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...
A compact, deep-sea, cable-cutting device, capable of severing the world’s most fortified underwater communication or power lines, has been unveiled by China – and it could shake up global ...