Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

The research facility of cold-seep ecosystem, a megaproject whose launch was recently announced in South China's Guangdong Province, aims to deepen humanity's understanding of deep-sea science by ...

China on Friday announced the official launch of a deep-sea research megaproject in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, designed to support cutting-edge fundamental research and ...

China has begun construction of a deep-sea research platform in Guangzhou, marking a major step in the country's efforts to explore extreme marine environments and develop sustainable ocean resources.

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...

An exploratory expedition describes two deep-sea, low-oxygen ecosystems in the Red Sea, including some surprising fish. The findings are published in PNAS Nexus. Persistent oxygen-depleted zones ...

It found a rich biodiversity hosting hints of several new species unknown to science. Deep-sea ecosystems typically rely on nutrients trickling from the surface slowly down to the seafloor.

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...