With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

Researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment helped lead the charge of underwater ...

They say just 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been directly observed, representing a speck on our planet that’s just larger than Rhode Island. It’s hardly surprising, then, that when we do take a ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Deep-sea explorers found two new worm species living inside a “glass sponge” off Japan. The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census expedition launched in June 2025 with the Japan Agency for ...

(CNN) — 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.

Governments face pressure to delay seabed mining as legal risks, fragile ecosystems and global treaty commitments collide.

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