Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long ...

What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only do they not know about the battle, they also don't even know much about the ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

Deep enough to stack more than a dozen Burj Khalifas, one on top of the other.

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Far below the familiar blue of the oceans, scientists are uncovering evidence of a vast hidden reservoir of water locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle. Rather than a single underground sea, this ...

Vanguard, a new subsea human habitat, will immerse researchers for weeks, allowing them to observe the ocean’s complexity and ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is "fixed" in ...