The newly-discovered ecosystem surrounding a hydrothermal vent could give scientists clues as to how life began on Earth.

Gold is present in seawater at unimaginably low levels. Scientists measure concentrations in femtomoles per litre, tiny ...

A massive hydrothermal field, Kunlun, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, exceeding the size of the Lost City. This ...

Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'.

Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

Mysterious white halos emerging around sunken barrels of chemical waste on the seafloor off California's coast have been ...

There Are Mystery Rings Around 500,000 Barrels on the Seafloor. They Shouldn’t Be There. For decades, many chemical companies, as well as the U.S. military, treated the waters off the coast of ...

The ocean holds gold, but dreams of instant riches are far-fetched. While gold exists in seawater, its concentration is ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments are unique ecosystems where geological activity creates extreme physicochemical conditions. In these habitats, chemosynthetic processes underpin primary ...

A deep-sea worm that lives in hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a toxic, arsenic-containing mineral that was used by artists for centuries ...

Comprehensive knowledge of the distribution of active hydrothermal vent fields along midocean ridges is essential to understanding global chemical and heat fluxes and endemic faunal distributions.