The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ...

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Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

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After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in international waters begins Monday in Jamaica, with hopes high for adoption this year.

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is under way over when and whether to allow mining of ...

Despite everything stacked against them, a variety of life thrives at ocean depths with bone-crushing pressure, low-oxygen, no light, and immensely cold temperatures. A new study analyzes the ...

Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine. Just when scientists think they’ve seen it all, the ocean proves ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep ...