Chinese officials have emphasised the economic importance of deep-sea mining and have been pushing for the swift exploitation of seabed resources. The US has also introduced bills calling for a ...

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From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.