American Samoa faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial fishing and a rising push for deep-sea mining -- forces ...

Scientists warn deep-sea mining plumes could starve tiny marine life, disrupting food webs and threatening fisheries View on ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

According to the news report, approximately 420,000 square miles will have strong protection. 350,000 square miles within ...

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

Beneath the waves of the high seas, beyond the national borders of any country, lies the deep seabed. Known in international ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

In the inky depths of the Central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a new ...