Researchers measured significant ecosystem damage resulting from deep-sea mining. Experts at the Natural History Museum detected a 32% drop in deep-sea biodiversity following extensive observation.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A network of animals being tracked by NASA and NOAA satellites is ...

A small octopus living deep beneath the eastern Pacific has gone unnoticed for years in underwater footage and specimen ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust observed the anemone feeding while a remotely operated camera was exploring the caldera rim of the Vailuluʻu Seamount in the South Pacific. Ocean Exploration Trust video ...

This secretive native of both sides of the Caribbean—from Belize to the British Virgin Islands—hides out on ledges and in caves of reefs up to 140 feet below the surface of the sea. Although not being ...

A broad swath of the Pacific Ocean is simmering from an exceptional marine heat wave that scientists warn could just be settling in. Marine animals are already feeling its effects.