The Arctic deep sea harbors significant oil and natural gas reserves along with valuable resources such as rare earths and metals. Climate change and melting ice are facilitating access to these ...

"Titanic" director James Cameron, back at the surface Monday after plunging to the deepest point of the Pacific in a solo submarine dive, described a barren "completely alien world" on the ocean ...

Louisiana scientists post video showing desolate sea floor at the site of BP spill ... In the deep sea, we don't understand the system well enough to be able to restore it," he said.

Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, ... Overhead sonar images show the carrier lying eerily upright and nearly intact on the deep and desolate ocean floor.

The creatures living on the ocean floor, however, are largely sheltered from climate change’s wrath, he said. Temperatures down there don’t change much, he said, even as they rise in shallow seas.

This suite of factors should make survival challenging, and thus for a century, scientists assumed the deep sea was biologically a desolate wasteland. Even after the discoveries of animals living at ...

Transparent sea cucumbers, bowl-shaped sponges, and pink sea pigs are some of the fascinating animals discovered during a deep-sea expedition to the Pacific Ocean.

Pictures of deep-sea vents hidden below ice ... its way past a glass sponge in the zone where the Aurora hydrothermal vent field pumps heat and nutrients onto the desolate floor of the Arctic Ocean.

The last frontier on Earth is out-of-this-world, desolate, foreboding, and moon-like, said after diving to the deepest part of the ocean. And he loved it. Cameron, who knows a little about alien ...