A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike conventional plastics that persist for decades. In real-world underwater ...

The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK’s documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth. The 52-minute documentary, produced with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX in collaboration ...

Despite the deep ocean covering two-thirds of our planet’s surface, humans have only explored a staggering 0.001% of it, according to a study published in Science Advances on May 7. This tiny fraction ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

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 ...