The ocean floor hosts a remarkable diversity of plant life, vital for both marine ecosystems and the planet’s health. Unlike land plants, underwater flora must adapt to low light, high pressure, and ...

Innovators who are working on ways to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to fight climate change are having a tough time lately. However, there may be a bright spot for this industry, and it ...

Learn more about why understanding how life works in the deep sea is crucial to understanding the entire planet, and that’s never been more important. We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent ...

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly pressurized—and home to a huge amount of undiscovered life. The first ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometre beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an unnamed seamount. Despite never appearing on a chart, this underwater forest has ...

More than half the planet is covered by oceans deep enough to sit in near-total darkness, crushing pressure, and temperatures that swing from near-freezing to over 100°C ...

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea ...