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By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...
For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human ...
Big Ocean, the world’s first K-pop group composed entirely of deaf and hard-of-hearing artists, is breaking barriers with ...
A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of ...
A massive crack is forming beneath one of the world's continents, and scientists believe it could one day split the continent ...
Yet despite decades of exploration, a study published in Science Advances has shown we still don't know what is lurking in 99.999 per cent of the deep ocean. Since 1958, 44,000 dives have only ...
Despite covering 66% of Earth's surface, our oceans are relatively unexplored, according to the Ocean Discovery League. The deep ocean, which is typically defined as deeper than 200m, has diverse ...
Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...
The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the ... able to produce enough of an electrical charge to split seawater, releasing oxygen through electrolysis.
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins ...
Researchers said that potato-sized nodules could be producing enough electrical current to split seawater into hydrogen ... about 2.7 billion years ago. "Deep-sea discovery calls into question ...