Much of the abyssal plain is between 3,000 and 6,000 meters ... The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, where pink denotes the shallowest water (continental shelves and ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Underwater mountains called seamounts and other ocean floor features like their smaller cousins, abyssal hills, influence the movement of heat and nutrients in the deep sea and can attract life.

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ocean floor 500 kilometers off ... and nearly 6,000 meters deep on an abyssal plain located farther offshore. Analysis of fine grains contained ...