A recent marine expedition found fascinating new species in the deep Pacific, highlighting how little is still known about life beneath the ocean.

At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where sunlight never reaches and pressure would crush most life, scientists have ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative follows last year's discovery of ...

In the past few years, people have become more and more interested in marine life– and it’s easy to see why. The ocean is ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

We may not notice it, but marine creatures off the Bay Area coast are already feeling the heat. Ocean temperatures in the north Pacific have been recording historic highs because of what's commonly ...

The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...

The blob is a large-scale marine heat wave in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was first detected in 2013 and was caused by a ...

The Pacific Ocean’s seabed is rich in critical metals such as cobalt and nickel. Yet deep-sea mining of these materials, which are used in many technologies, threatens the region. If mining goes ahead ...