In New Zealand, the stay-or-go debate over orange roughy fisheries encapsulates the tensions in the relationship between ...

The coral Iridogorgia chewbacca, found in the tropical Pacific, has long branches, and its DNA confirms that it is a new species.

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

A proposed rule would promote research and conservation efforts at a California national marine sanctuary. A proposed rule from NOAA Fisheries would bar fishermen from using gear that touches the ...

Director Ridley Scott may have just found his next alien. An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores. This discovery, ...

A mysterious hole has been discovered leaking freshwater from the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest. Known as Pythia’s Oasis ...

At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it. An eelpout swims by a tower of ...

On April 24, Donald Trump signed an executive order to expedite the development of offshore mining of polymetallic nodules.

A new study reveals that melting Antarctic sea ice could release massive amounts of trapped carbon dioxide, potentially ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Deep-sea trawling is destroying underwater mountains teeming with marine life and causing irreparable damage to ecosystems, scientists warned on Wednesday. Sign up here. Most of the ...

Yet for all their vast potential, deep-sea mining remains off-limits for now. The obstacle is not merely technological feasibility but a lack of legal clarity. Under the United Nations Convention on ...