More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by conventional wisdom, exist. In the permanent night and crushing pressure of the deep, ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

We opened a window into our country’s biodiversity only to find there are so many more windows left to be opened.” ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) -- Following January's wildfires, there have been reports of increased debris floating off the Southern California coast, including a viral video that showed a ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

As diplomats from around the world convene in Jamaica next month to discuss international guidelines on deep sea mining, environmental activists are urging nations to consider a California law they ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies just a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...