More than half of the world’s ocean floor is under the jurisdiction of an intergovernmental ... to allow the nations of the Earth to mine the sea. The cold floor of the deep ocean is a place ...

Undersea agriculture. Deep sea mining. Human colonies on the ocean floor. These were the dreams of Capt. George Bond, a Navy medical officer. It was the age of exploration. While NASA made front ...

As the planet warms, ocean ecosystems are changing in ways we can now see. Rising temperatures, shifting currents, and changing marine habitats may explain why deep-sea creatures are appearing in ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living ... swirling waters from nearby hydrothermal vents. Beneath the ocean floor, under hydrothermal vents spewing hot water, a community of animals ...

ocean conditions have declined. The international seabed zone encompasses 54% of the planet's surface. The designation was created in 1994 under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows. Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more ...

Three robotic arms extended under the water in a Canadian lake, delicately selecting pebbles from the bed, before storing ...