After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

Scientists launch a global mission to explore 10,000 deep ocean locations and uncover unseen marine life and ecosystems ...

Ocean Discovery League (ODL) has launched the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, an ambitious international effort to ...

This story was updated to properly reflect that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is a part of the Department of the ...

Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...

In recent months, leaders in California and Santa Cruz County have spoken out in opposition to offshore drilling and seabed ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...