In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

The bottom of the sea is cold, dark and under pressures of tons per square inch. Although we have known for more than 100 years that there is life down ... the start of the deep sea on the ...

Damage to sensitive sea floor ecosystems sparks calls for tighter regulation of the tourist ship industry in the Antarctic ...

Mud is messy. For some, it's a plaything. To many, it can mean real hardship. Mud, though, is often overlooked, particularly ...

Seamounts support marine life but face damage from bottom trawling, releasing massive underwater carbon stores.

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...