Part of the tectonic "Ring of Fire" encircling ... the first to sound its fathomless depths with a weighted rope. Deep ocean exploration began with the diving bell: a rigid structure that contains ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

It appears to be an alien planet. What is the ocean's deepest point? What lives in the Mariana Trench—and what has been discovered recently?

They included the first human descent to the deepest point of the Yap Trench, which is located in the western Pacific Ocean and is nearly 9,000 meters deep ... in the deepest part of the Yap ...

The findings from this study are now publicly available as part of the Mariana Trench Environment ... s last great unexplored ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Eventually, it reaches the seabed and accumulates, becoming part of what scientists call one of the most pristine geological archives ... “We hope that other research groups will also investigate ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.