Here, any sedimentary layers that settle to the bed of the brine pool remain exquisitely intact…Our current understanding is ...

The darkest depths of the Red Sea could shed light on the origins of life itself, thanks to a stunning discovery made by scientists. A team of researchers at the University of Miami hit the bottom of ...

Apalachicola is that rare Florida gem – a place where oyster boats still dot the harbor, historic buildings house family-run businesses, and the pace of life moves in rhythm with the tides rather than ...

World leaders have renewed calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining at the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, as the U.S. moves to mine the deep sea in international waters ...

The deep sea needs rules, says the head of the body that governs it Leticia Carvalho on why the world will be worse off if America goes its own way ...

NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders ...

One study published in Science earlier this month found that with 44,000 deep-sea dives, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed — which is roughly the size of Yosemite ...

In 2013, a deep-sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

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 ...

Deep-sea mining has emerged as a rapidly developing frontier in global resource extraction, driven by the increasing demand for minerals essential for green technologies. Minerals such as nickel ...

One of these species is the spotfin scorpionfish, or Neoscorpaena nielseni, a bright red fish typically found in the western Indian Ocean along the coasts of South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar ...