When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from ...

A coalition of authorities is deploying technology to try to locate the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last month off ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.

The deep sea is one of Earth’s most extreme environments, characterized by pressure conditions that would instantly crush most land-dwelling organisms. For every 10 meters a creature descends beneath ...

The Trump administration, with the support of many congressional Republicans, is looking to boost deep-sea mining as a way to counter Chinese dominance of critical minerals supply chains. The National ...

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A newly discovered ecosystem beneath the Arctic Ocean has changed scientists' understanding of deep-sea biodiversity and the way carbon cycles through the Earth's environment. Scientists, led by ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...