The mission was part of Challenger 150, a UNESCO-endorsed global initiative for deep-sea research. The discoveries were ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

China has begun construction of a deep-sea research platform in Guangzhou ... studies of cold-seep ecosystems — unique biological communities that thrive in darkness and under extreme pressure ...