Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean ...
Eighty steel boxes, each roughly the size of a microwave oven, were lowered to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean between late ...
A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...
Somewhere between Hawaii and Mexico, more than four kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the seafloor is ...
Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...
Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being used to create new commercial products ranging from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. Genes are segments of DNA that provide instructions for making ...
More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...
Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...