The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget ...

The Arctic deep sea harbors significant oil and natural gas reserves along with valuable resources such as rare earths and ...

Norway has decided not to move forward with deep-sea mining activities following budget negotiations within the minority ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ocean floor off the coast of Chile, where deep marine vents emit ...

In the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, small shrimp-like crustaceans called krill (Euphausia superba) swim in swarms of ...

Uncover 8 surprising facts about trash on the ocean floor and its hidden impact on marine life. Learn how pollution reaches ...

Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea ...

to blue (deep), increasing in depth with distance from the shoreline. Great swathes of the ocean floor are at basically the same elevation. However, thanks to plate tectonics, there's more to the ...

Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the ...