I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

If you ask most people, they would tell you the bottom of the ocean is a dark and depressing place they wouldn't want to visit. It's often used as a metaphor for those kinds of feelings. But the truth ...

Hadal dive with manned submersible Fendouzhe. This figure is created to depict these remarkable ecosystems, forming a "river" of chemosynthetic communities at the bottom of hadal trench - painting the ...

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 sunlight can ...

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

Methane is best known for how dangerous is can be to humans and the part it plays in global warming. However, when you go deep beneath the ocean, you're likely to find an assortment of creatures that ...

Ed Hawkins receives funding from UKRI NERC grants and is supported by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Ric Williams receives funding from UKRI NERC grants and works at University of ...