Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of ...

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

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we have still only explored a tiny area of the deep ...

A Sinner of the Deep Sea is a nearly-perfect three-volume series. I wish it could have been longer, because this is a world and characters who are so well realized that it feels like a shame to ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ...

“Any attempt to accelerate deep-sea mining without proper safeguards will only speed up the destruction of our oceans.” This was echoed by the Washington-based group Ocean ...

White House aides say the initiative could see US operations scoop up more than a billion metric tons of mineral-rich deep-sea nodules, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the American ...

Commercial deep-sea mining remains in its infancy, but with a global race underway for rare earth minerals – and the industry dominated by China – Washington appears set on expanding its ...