A study in Marine Pollution Bulletin reveals record-high marine litter in deep waters, highlighting the urgent environmental ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...

Scientists uncovered a thriving, never-before-seen ecosystem beneath Antarctica after a giant iceberg broke off.

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Crater Lake National Park's Crater Lake will be closed until 2029. Crater Lake and the popular Cleetwood Cove Trail will be ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

ROVs offer fresh perspectives on the ancient history of the ocean. Marine and coastal geoscience are essential for understanding both ancient and modern geological processes, assessing offshore and ...

As deep-sea robots continue to evolve, they hold the potential to discover new life forms—true deep-sea "aliens"—and unlock ...