After decades of negotiations, a landmark treaty to protect the world’s high seas stands at a turning point – and France is ...

A rarely spotted “supergiant” crustacean related to woodlice is actually a common inhabitant of the sea floor, a new study ...

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

The Xiaozhai Tiankeng stands as the textbook example of what happens when karst processes are given perfect working ...

The Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off Oregon's coast, shows signs of eruption. Experts assure it won't affect land or ...

The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, Astrid Puentes Riaño, urged world leaders on Tuesday to incorporate human rights in ocean governance ...

An underwater 'city' that predates anything else of its size was discovered in the Gulf of Khambhat, India in 2000.

Seabed mining doesn’t normally attract much media attention, but President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on the topic, ...

"High abundances have been consistently observed in deep waters, including … 13,500 particles per [cubic meter] at 6,800 ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

The UN Ocean Conference promises to be a rare event at which most of the key players are in the same location and free of the ...