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In the deep blue sea, there are always unknowns waiting to be discovered. In 2025, China's HOVs dived into the heavily ...

More than 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow deep-sea mining ...

A joint China-Chile expedition aims to explore a 435-mile stretch of the Atacama Trench, ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

In collaboration with Chilean researchers, Chinese research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao (Exploration No. 1) will, for the first ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

Activists from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and beyond announced Tuesday they collected more than ...

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More than 3,000 people from U.S. territories have signed a petition opposing proposed deep seabed mining in waters near the Mariana Islands and American Samoa, warning of irreversible environmental ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...