Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Over the past decade, environmental disasters that have damaged the world’s oceans have been chronicled. These range from ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...

Chinese scientists have identified 7,564 species of prokaryotic microorganisms — 89.4 percent of them previously unreported — during an expedition to the hadal zone, the deepest part of the ...