Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

The oceans need more care than they ever have before—and few people are taking on that job with more commitment than Diva Amon. A marine biologist at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone because it's too deep for sunlight to reach. Most animals here are much smaller ...

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'. The tortuous system of deep craters and dolomite walls blows the Atlantic Ocean's ...

Today’s spectacular, eye-popping documentary feature “Ocean with David Attenborough” only took 3-plus years, three directors, several ships, fearless divers, camera crews and the 99-year-old icon to ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting. These changes now implicate the international framework for governing ...

It is a common refrain that we know more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the oceans. Now, oceanographer Katherine Bell and her collaborators have quantified just how little of the deep ...

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a first ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can ...