A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

Some creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years, surviving drastic climate shifts and evolution. Meet 10 living ...

Enjoy sunrise at the top of the highest mountain in south Wales - Pen y Fan - for a romantic start to the day. Trek up the ...

These sea spiders, or pycnogonids, are distant relatives of land spiders. With leg spans reaching up to 20 inches (51 cm), they far surpass the largest land spiders. This impressive size is attributed ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly ... support myriad life forms including giant sea spiders, octopuses and icefish, Schmidt Ocean ...

The species with “deep-sea gigantism” was spotted off the remote South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto The summaries below were drafted with the ...