Learn how a dramatic climate shift in the Pacific may have wiped out an entire underwater ecosystem deep below the Galápagos ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galapagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...

The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...

Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, the deep-sea corals that had clung to seamounts off the Galápagos Islands for more than 100 ...

Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

As demand for critical minerals surges around the world, countries are debating whether to mine the untapped deep-sea reserves of cobalt, copper and manganese, miles below the surface. But a growing ...

New research from biology professor Xin Sun provides insight into how climate change affects marine greenhouse gas emissions. Sun’s research revealed how nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 270 times more ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding scientific studies to evaluate the ...

The Antarctic sea, where glaciers drift across the surface. What kind of world lies 1,300 meters below the surface?

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

New research shows La Niña may have driven the collapse of deep-sea corals in the Galápagos, lasting over 1,000 years.