With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean is stitched together by pockets of warmth and chemistry that function like underwater cities. Scientists have spent decades tracing these hidden oases, ...

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 ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...

Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...