When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

Deep below the surface, the ocean floor is full of riches. There’s gold, iron, and lots of other rare, precious metals. What ...

The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...