Robert Blasiak receives funding from Formas research grant 2020-01048. Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being used to create new commercial products ranging from pharmaceuticals to ...

Deep-sea mining is the process of extracting and often excavating mineral deposits from the deep seabed. The deep seabed is the seabed at ocean depths greater than 200m, and covers about two-thirds of ...

Russia, Denmark and Canada have all submitted claims to the North Pole in past years. With a lack of multilateral agreements ...

Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

The co-founder of OceanGate has said he hopes the Titan sub disaster won't mark the end of deep-sea exploration. OceanGate chief Stockton Rush, British adventurer Hamish Harding, father and son ...

The ocean's twilight zone is deep, dark, and—according to new research—iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this region 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea surface, where levels of iron ...

Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of ...

Shenhai Yihao, or Deep Sea No.1, China's first domestic ultra-deepwater gas field project, was completed on Thursday after the construction of its second phase came to an end. The achievement is a ...

China's research vessel Deep Sea No 1, carrying manned submersible Jiaolong, receives a warm welcome in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Sept 24, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] HONG KONG -- ...