Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly overturning what I thought I knew about where life can thrive. Lying over 11,940 ...

Far north in the Fram Strait, scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working with colleagues including the University of Southampton in the U.K., have identified the deepest known gas ...

Indigenous and Western scientists are working together to uncover biodiversity in the icy deep. They’re getting some eight-armed help. An Pacific warty octopus mom fights off multiple crabs to protect ...

In the depths of the ocean where the Earth’s crust meets the freezing water, chemicals leak into the seawater through cracks and fissures called cold seeps. These floods of hydrocarbon-rich fluid and ...