Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency from the industry to help mitigate the harms. Noise in the deep ocean can ...

Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustaceans that had never been documented before have been formally described from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast stretch of the central Pacific Ocean floor where ...

The El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is producing chart-topping heat data. Its influence is forecast to ripple around the planet.

Far below the sunlit surface of the Pacific Ocean lives a fish that seems to challenge ordinary ideas about anatomy. Known as ...

According to a new study, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has supplied the durable surfaces needed for an accidental ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean surface. The pressure down there ...