The Atacama Trench, one of the Earth’s most extreme and remote marine environments, has yielded yet another fascinating discovery. Scientists have identified a new species of deep-sea predator, a ...

OPINION: The lack of proven commercially viable ores, the immaturity of crust mining technology and the potential to harm marine life make this a foolhardy endeavor, Andrew D. Thaler writes.

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

A bizarre new predator has been discovered lurking 26,000 feet below the ocean's surface and has been named after its pitch-black home. The new crustacean was discovered deep in the Atacama Trench ...

Hadal trenches, with their deepest locations situated in the so-called hadal zone, the deepest parts of the ocean in water depth >6km, are the least-explored environment on Earth, linking the Earth's ...

This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake was ...