California-based company Impossible Metals asked the Trump administration earlier this month to auction off mining leases for ...

Into the Depths, the first 4D popular science film presented by the National History Museum of China, premiered in Beijing ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

A deep-sea robot is released onto the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,666 meters. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature ...

And, worst of all, the pressure is so immense that even many species of weathered deep-sea marine life can't live there. So, ...

In 2019, an American explorer broke records by traveling to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but what he found there was ...

(Reuters) - The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the ...

The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of ...

The Izu-Ogasawara Trench is a deep oceanic trench. It’s one of the most challenging places to explore. The depth of 8,336 meters is extraordinary. No other fish has been recorded at such a depth ...

More information: Noriyuki Isobe et al, Fully circular shapable transparent paperboard with closed-loop recyclability and marine biodegradability across shallow to deep sea, Science Advances (2025).