The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on ...

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have recently experienced water shortages. In the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly ...

A look at the quest to mine the bottom of the ocean for valuable minerals, the connection between light pollution and ...

A glass squid filmed at 1,725 meters in the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, CC ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of researchers captured high-definition pictures of a sunken World War I-era U.S. Navy submarine off the coast of San Diego, over a century after it was lost at sea.

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

They’re called comb jellies though they’re not jellyfish. And they are beautiful when exposed to the light. But where some of them live, 8,000 meters beneath the sea, there is no light and they have ...

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards Spitsbergen, to use newly developed ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors, and stock prices have soared.