For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human ...

The ocean covers almost 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, and over 95 percent remains unexplored. With so much of the ocean ...

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

Researchers from Ocean Discovery League analyzed data from around 44,000 deep-sea dives conducted since 1958. Their findings highlight stark limitations in visual exploration. Related Stories ...

Using flowcharts/tree-diagram in the answers saves much time and boosts your ... A significant percentage of the ocean floor is located between 3-6 kilometres below sea level. The ocean floors are ...

Due to the costs and the technology needed to explore at vast depths, only a few countries are equipped to scan the ocean floor. These countries include the United States, Japan, New Zealand ...

Don’t expect that percentage to change anytime soon, either. The study’s authors at the Ocean Discovery League in Rhode Island estimate that even if 1,000 remote and piloted deep sea ...

“It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish,” says David Attenborough in the new documentary Ocean with David ... One way to help the sea floor recover from trawling is to ...

And in one sequence the camera follows a bottom trawl – where nets are dragged with a metal beam across the seabed to catch fish – as it travels over the ocean floor, destroying the habitat ...

While scientists note that not all dive records are publicly accessible, even if their estimates were off by a factor of ten, it would still mean that less than one-hundredth of 1% of the deep ocean ...

A pale octopus was spotted scampering along the ocean floor off the coast of Victoria, Australia, with a scuba diver capturing the creature navigating its underwater terrain. Emily May ...

As the iron chains travel across the ocean floor they can be seen bulldozing through the habitat, stirring up silt which releases carbon and scooping up species indiscriminately. The footage is ...