Orpheus Ocean of New Bedford, Massachusetts is building robotic vehicles to descend into extreme depths to collect data from ...

Plastic waste has haunted the world’s oceans for decades. What you may not realize is that the most dangerous pieces are often the ones you never see. Far below the ocean’s glittering surface, ...

China’s new device could reach vital undersea fiber optic cables deeper than its competitors’ known remote submersibles.

Deep beneath the ocean floor, researchers have found giant frozen waves of sediment. What does this explain about how the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonardo Macelloni, University of Mississippi (THE CONVERSATION) You may be hearing a ...

What if the key to solving the world’s growing water crisis lies not on land but deep beneath the ocean’s surface? With millions of people lacking access to clean water and traditional desalination ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...