Far below the turquoise surface of the Caribbean, an almost perfectly circular patch of dark water drops away so sharply that ...

A blue hole in the sea near Mexico is so deep that humans have yet to reach its bottom. It also has certain conditions that ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

Researchers have discovered an underwater sinkhole so deep, they haven’t even reached the bottom yet. Taam Ja' Blue Hole ...

Not only did the turf give way, but a feeling of certainty did as well. Heidelberg’s AJ Burkitt Oval, a small but beloved ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate ...

In 2025 Mongabay-India reported about several new-to-science species. From sea butterflies and deep-sea squids to Himalayan bats, these species were described by scientists after several analyses ...

Researchers have identified the deepest known methane seep in the Arctic, located almost 12,000 feet below the surface on Molloy Ridge in the Greenland Sea. The discovery pushes known hydrate outcrops ...

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly gives way to a near vertical shaft of vast darkness – an ocean sinkhole almost ...

The U.S. government is moving closer to approving deep-sea mining in international waters, opening a contentious new front in the push to secure critical minerals. Federal officials said they will ...

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates. During a research cruise around the North Pole, scientists encountered the ...

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had ...