A multi-institutional team that includes researchers from the University of Delaware, University of California San Diego and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), among others, published a ...

A look at the quest to mine the bottom of the ocean for valuable minerals, the connection between light pollution and ...

This deep-sea ctenophore is about the size of a tennis ball and thrives two miles below the sea surface. Its scientific genus is Bathocyroe, which translates to “master of the deep.” University of ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has upgraded its Ocean Simulation Laboratories with a new 30-inch diameter pressure ...

They’re called comb jellies though they’re not jellyfish. And they are beautiful when exposed to the light. But where some of them live, 8,000 meters beneath the sea, there is no light and they have ...

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have recently experienced water shortages. In the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly ...

A new study from the Danish Center for Hadal Research, University of Southern Denmark, reports on a series of experiments with exposing marine snow to increasing pressure - up to 1000 bar, which ...

China has completed what it describes as the world’s first 537-day deep-sea material corrosion ...

Nearly three miles beneath the surface of the Pacific, where water pressure would crush a submarine not built for the abyss, ...

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Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...