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

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 Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

Across Earth's deep oceans, explorers have taken a look at an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, which isn't saying much.

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and companies are already lining up to mine US waters. Listen to Story At the heart of ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The United States government has no right to unilaterally allow an industry to destroy the common heritage of humankind and rip up the deep sea for the profit of a few corporations," said Arlo ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

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 ...