"Being able to study these remote and poorly-known deep-sea regions is a huge privilege." Experts warn ongoing crisis at ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

The number of sea-floor animals fell by 37 per cent in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, according to a study published on ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

A network of animals being tracked by NASA and NOAA satellites is helping researchers protect biodiversity on a distant island group in the Pacific Ocean. This "Internet of Animals" is a project ...

In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold ...

The study probed the effect of the emerging industry’s impact on biodiversity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea, they ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust observed the anemone feeding while a remotely operated camera was exploring the caldera rim of the Vailuluʻu Seamount in the South Pacific. Ocean Exploration Trust video ...

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California. Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the ...