While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under ...

But after years of meticulous research, teams of scientists, including MBARI senior scientist Steven Haddock, who led that ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Just off the coast of Malibu, California, a network of underwater pods is preparing to do something no U.S. desalination ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...