Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency ...

Ocean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean ...

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) announced that its Deep Sea No.1 Phase II project in the South China Sea has entered ...

The island's climate change minister told leaders at the United Nations Ocean Conference that the extraction of metals from ...

The OceanGate Titan submersible, designed to ferry curious billionaires and adventurers to the Titanic wreck site (the ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, this Dumbo octopus looks like it waltzed straight out of an ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling Program, the special-built Meng Xiang (梦想号, "Dream") drill ship is gearing up ...

"Just watched the Titan submersible documentary, hell isn’t hot enough for Stockton Rush." That was the blunt verdict from ...

However, these highly diverse deep-sea ecosystems are under a great deal of pressure in the Gulf. Commercial bottom trawling continues physically destroying coral habitat, with heavy nets dragging ...

Commissioned in late 2024, Meng Xiang is a 560-foot, 42,600-ton ship with a 36,000 ft deep-sea drill capacity. It can stay at sea for 120 days, house 180 personnel, and includes nine cutting-edge ...

Matsya-6000 submersible, part of India's ambitious Samudrayaan mission -- a manned deep sea exploration mission -- is set to enter its crucial phase of the second series of harbour tests.