By Elizabeth Claire Alberts U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed ...

Residents will get another 30 days to weigh in on the federal government’s request for information and interest in commercial ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...

Concerns about impacts to fish, contamination, destruction of historic undersea artifacts, errors, canceled studies and a ...

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The latest triumph in ocean technology comes from a small, rugged machine that slipped beneath Antarctic ice into a part of ...

A leading deep-sea researcher told Marianas residents last week that damage from proposed seabed mining operations could ...

As the federal government pushes forward with plans to lease ocean floor areas near Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for deep seabed mining, local officials and ...

We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of the sea are found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. But what is the ...

(CNN) — Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in ...