For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

The ocean floor is typically home to dead whales, sunken ships, and long-abandoned shopping carts. Mysterious artefacts such ...

Ghost sharks inhabit some of the darkest and least explored regions of the deep sea. Researchers have captured rare footage ...

Far beneath the waves, animals evolve in strange and surprising ways, often becoming much larger than their shallow-water ...

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Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, a gigantic steel structure about the size of a football field rises out of the blue, ...

The payoff could be immense, but so could the damage. A growing body of evidence is showing that deep-sea mining could be ...