The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

Marine habitats are facing unprecedented threats, with 66% of coastal areas already altered and degraded. Bottom-contact fisheries, which use indiscriminate trawling, physically damage almost 5 ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

Research led by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), with the participation of the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Indigenous leaders are calling for involvement in the agreement’s decision-making process, not just an acknowledgement of ...

OAA scientists uncover a towering stone monolith in Papahānaumokuākea, revealing new insights into the Pacific’s deep-sea ...