Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

What makes Monterey Bay so appealing is what you can’t see. Starting a mile off shore from Moss Landing is the start of the third largest submarine canyon in the world. It is 292 miles long, 7.5 miles ...

From microplastics in the deepest point of our ocean to hydrocarbon-eating bacteria, discover five fascinating studies into ...

The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the ...

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

A new development from the University of South Florida may help control toxic algal blooms. It's one of a number of methods ...

As policymakers meet in Jamaica to develop regulations for mineral exploitation in international waters, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala highlights what’s at stake for Pacific cultures.

Species documented in the Nankai Trough included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan — mollusks, worms, crustaceans, ...

Most people visit Nusa Penida for its turquoise waters and dramatic clifftop views, but YouTuber Barny Dillarstone had something far more ambitious in mind. He submerged a specially equipped camera ...

Even as opposition grows and the U.S. territory maintains a moratorium on seabed mining, NOAA began a $20 million survey of ...