Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

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 ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific ... Found on rocks and in caves at night, these geckos have “slender” bodies and “long” limbs, with distinctive yellow-brown coloring.

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...

“People thought of the polar night as these desert conditions where ... darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right, the zone of productive ocean may be deeper than anyone thought.

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...