The near-bottom water in the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional ...

A groundbreaking studypublished in Nature reveals compelling evidence of a vast ocean trapped deep within the Earth’s mantle, ...

A team of geophysicists and atmospheric scientists at Princeton's NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the ...

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the ...

Of the Kiks.adi Clan of Sitka, Ixt’Ik’Eesh has been harvesting herring fish eggs for most of his life. His earliest ...

Researchers argue that expanding deep-sea exploration is vital to understanding and managing these marine habitats ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

One ambitious company has a plan to establish a colony of adventurous humans beneath the sea, but scientists have some doubts ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.