Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have ...

U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Concerns about impacts to fish, contamination, destruction of historic undersea artifacts, errors, canceled studies and a ...

Ocean depths hide sharks with extraordinary features. These creatures, from the Goblin shark's snout to the Thresher shark's ...

Researchers analyzed sediment and plankton samples from a mineral-rich region often targeted. Researchers sound alarm on ...

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa have no automatic claim to revenues generated from deep seabed mining ...

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the ...

The waters of the Northern Marianas harbor extremely high biodiversity, including endemic species, which will face extinction ...