We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent of that ocean is unknown to us. Like ...

Image Image by Andres Alegria. From the story "China's Deep-Sea Mining Fleet May Also Track U.S. Submarines." “It can feel ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

(Saunderstown, RI — May 7, 2025) In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has ...

Two Swiss geophysicists, Thomas Schouten and Andreas Fichtner, felt something odd about Earth's interior when they investigated the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1796 miles, as reported by ETH Zurich's ...

We’ve barely explored the ocean’s floor. This new 3D map offers 10,000 new spots to look at next. Composite satellite visualizations of the Earth. National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

This year’s COP30 comes after the international Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) finally acquired the required number of ratification votes by ...