"Our assessment will provide a thorough understanding of the places we explore." Researchers stunned by discovery during deep ...

The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has created shockwaves by demanding that the rules for deep sea mining are agreed in the next two years. Environmental groups warn that this will lead to a ...

The companies that create technology used on a daily basis often run into traditional cultures and the environment that ...

Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

Miles below the surface of the ocean, it’s pitch-black, cold and empty. Only the highly adapted and most unique creatures on Earth can survive there, and even then, much of their lives are a mystery.

The deep sea is home to habitats and species found nowhere else on Earth, and provides essential environmental services. Despite its importance, its vast size and challenging conditions mean there is ...

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

Modern oceanographic knowledge of deep-sea fish is comparable to the in formation of a student of African animals, who has trapped a small collection of rats and mice but is still wholly unaware ...

Sep. 6, 2024 — Researchers now reveal how a bacterial parasite infects and reproduces in the nuclei of deep-sea mussels from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. They show how a single bacterial ...

It’s one way that sea and space come together: life-support systems. NT: We have an interesting duality here with the challenges of accessing and surviving underwater and the challenges of ...

Frightening special effects drive this campy thriller about superintelligent sharks. At a high-tech lab in the Atlantic, a biologist (Saffron Burrows) and her team implant human brain tissue into ...