‘A Life Illuminated’ Review: A Wonderfully Unflashy Documentary About One of the Planet’s Most Fascinating Phenomena

Tasha Van Zandt's 'A Life Illuminated,' about oceanographer Dr. Edith Widder, feels by-the book, but that only allows its subject to really shine.
Post and Courier

'Nodules' documentary explores mystery of deep-sea mining damage off South Carolina

This work was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On July 22, 2024, a team of researchers released a shocking discovery: Deep-sea rocks appear to be producing oxygen in the blackness of the ocean’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans Have Seen Only 0.001 Percent of the World’s Deep Seas, Leaving Most of the Planet a Vast Mystery

Dumbo octopuses, like the Opisthoteuthis agassizii seen here during a 2019 dive, are the deepest-living group of octopuses known. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S.
EurekAlert!

Team highlights importance of human exploration of the three deeps

A team of scientists from Southern University of Science and Technology has published a paper highlighting the importance of ...

China's Jiaolong manned submersible conducts world’s first joint operation with ROV in Arctic waters: report

Jiaolong, China's manned submersible, conducts a manned deep dive in the Arctic ice. /Photo taken by Liu Shiping from Xinhua ...
EurekAlert!

Only 0.001% of the deep seafloor visually observed in seventy years, revealing gaps and bias in ocean exploration and global biodiversity understanding

(Saunderstown, RI — May 7, 2025) In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has ...
NPR

Understanding the Impact of Deep Sea Mining

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...