New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

July 25, 2024 The excitement is focused on the potato-sized rocks — or polymetallic nodules — found littered across areas of the ocean floor. These nodules contain minerals, such as cobalt and ...

Even at those depths, the ocean floor teems with life. It’s slow-growing and often small but it is there – and some of it glows. "Life down there operates like it's on a different planet ...

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 ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

Deep sea researchers have discovered a whole new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents in the ocean floor. Hydrothermal vents have long been an ecologically exciting environment for researchers ...

Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

Vast expanses of the sea floor remain where the only information available is from rough mapping tools, such as sonar, Bell says. “The Indian Ocean is one of the least-explored areas.” ...