"Being able to study these remote and poorly-known deep-sea regions is a huge privilege." Experts warn ongoing crisis at ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

The number of sea-floor animals fell by 37 per cent in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, according to a study published on ...

In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

The study probed the effect of the emerging industry’s impact on biodiversity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea, they ...

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California. Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the ...