Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

As the race for critical minerals heats up, companies and governments have set their sights on the mineral-rich deep sea. But ...

To reconstruct ocean temperatures, researchers look at ratios of stable oxygen isotopes in deep-sea waters by measuring oxygen held in seafloor carbonate. The ratio of the "heavy" oxygen-18 ...

Beyond the fact that 21% of the ocean has lost access to sunlight, the deep waters are just too far from the surface to soak up any rays. As such, methane-rich diets have become an evolutionary ...

Deep-sea bottom trawling — where a weighted net is dragged along the seabed, which critics say seriously damages ecosystems in the process — risks wiping out ocean wildlife and hurting the future of ...

The area, known as Sur Ridge, is a Manhattan-sized underwater formation about 30 miles off the central California coast with ocean depths ranging from 2,700 to 5,100 feet.

The report will be presented at the United Nations, which is debating a plan to ban deep sea bottom-trawling in unregulated areas. It reveals new findings about the underwater mountains, some of ...