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A new company is making waves in the world of deep-sea mining.

Climate scientists like to keep their accounting books neat and balanced. As climate change alters energy flows all across ...

Two new studies that relied on data from a fleet of diving robots show how climate change is altering ocean movements in ways ...

Far out in the North Atlantic, roughly 590 miles east of Florida, a sprawling patch of water drifts in slow rotation. It ...

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone, because it's too deep for sunlight to reach. Most animals here are much smaller ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...