When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology. His work focuses on the deep sea, studying the “linkages” between marine ...

ROVs offer fresh perspectives on the ancient history of the ocean. Marine and coastal geoscience are essential for ...

Deep-sea expedition reveals low-oxygen depths of Red Sea host unexpected life Mar 4, 2025 Metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor split water to generate 'dark oxygen,' new study finds ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

They may be “abundant” and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals growing larger than their shallow-water relatives.