The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

A new discovery in one of the most remote and extreme parts of the ocean is challenging our understanding of life at incredible depths. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, at nearly 8,000 meters, ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

The deep sea, Earth's largest and least explored ecosystem, has intrigued scientists for generations with its unique ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.