World leaders gathered for the UN Ocean Conference in Nice on Monday called for strict rules to govern deep-sea mining and warned against racing to exploit the ocean floor. This comes amid growing ...

Deep ocean exploration began with the diving bell: a rigid structure that contains air, used to transport divers to an area for underwater work. It was known to Aristotle in the 4th century BC.

Humans still haven’t seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists want to change ...

Much of the ocean has never been mapped, and it is for this reason that projects like Seabed 2030 exist, to finally map every ocean. Just over a quarter of the oceans’ floor has been mapped ...

Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures ...

Nodules containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese rest top these core samples taken from the deep ocean floor, San Diego, Calif., June 8, 2021. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE.

Why Trump is signing an executive action on mining the deep ocean By . Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison. Updated Apr 25, 2025, 10:19 AM ET. PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025, 4:47 PM ET.

Deep in the ocean, scientists discovered the presence of "dark" oxygen, which is oxygen produced without photosynthesis. Oxygen was previously thought to require light to be produced; the new ...

Map of major current systems (Baffin Island Current and Western Greenland Current) and sample site locations in Baffin Bay. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53132-5 ...