Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape the seabed for metals. Hundreds of newly described animals, from delicate ...

Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.

The shark was spotted in near-freezing waters, which most species can't withstand ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

A marine scientist says commercial deep-sea mining may begin within years, but Fiji’s seabed minerals are not yet considered viable for extraction.

Work led by former CIRES Visiting Fellow Chris Little uncovered 3 distinct spatial patterns in Pacific Ocean tide gauge sea level records: A spatially uniform rise, smaller than that found in other ...