Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located approximately 300 miles due west of Astoria, Oregon, is showing signs ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa.

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

The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

Discover how human-induced nitrogen pollution affects the oceans' ability to mitigate climate change and the urgent need for ...

Multiple studies suggest 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is “far too high” to prevent rapid ice sheet retreat that would be ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

More than 5,500 deep-sea species, such as this brittle star, reside in the area of the Pacific known as the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Photograph by ROV Isis/SMARTEX Project/Natural Environment ...