Modern Settlement Livelihood Study Group ReportFor people to continue living on this land, they need work that supports their daily lives—in other words, a "livelihood." Modern Settlement has been ...

Thousands of meters below the waves off Australia's east coast, far beyond where sunlight can reach, a stunning light show ...

Following a deep-sea expedition into Argentina’s submarine canyons, and the subsequent international Species Discovery ...

In the deep, dark Australian Abyss, what’s visible can be scarier than the unseen. There, giant sea spiders with glowing 25-centimeter-long legs may scuttle like disembodied apparitions. Photos of ...

Cuttlefish change color by manipulating millions of pigment cells, called chromatophores, which act like color pixels in a ...

What is NOAA’s role in deep seabed mining? Deep seabed mining is the extraction of critical mineral resources from the ocean floor. The deep seabed has valuable resources like manganese, nickel, ...

(ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) There's always a bigger fish in the sea. For most of us, that idiom is a warning – but for one little swimmer in the deep, it's a blessing. The black swallower ...

Vital seafloor habitats were damaged by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. NOAA and partners are building a network of experts and resources to restore this underexplored area in the Gulf of ...

You probably know sea stars as starfish, the name sea stars are commonly known by. But sea stars aren’t really fish. Sea ...

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining Scientists have discovered nine new deep-sea sponge species off Alaska, offering new ...

A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most proteins. Its unusual structure and a newly observed ...

Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later ...