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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

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An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

Earth’s oceans are perhaps the most beautiful and awe-inspiring natural areas on the planet, but they also hold some of the ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

"There is strong justification for continued optimism regarding the potential for extraterrestrial life," said one of the ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

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The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...