Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

A team of marine scientists has uncovered what appears to be a previously unknown species of sea squirt during a deep-sea ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's ... in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 meters—organisms endure immense pressures exceeding 1 ton per square centimeter, near ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

The collection of small "polymetallic nodules" from an eight-metre strip of the seabed caused long-term sediment changes and reduced the populations of many of the larger organisms living there ...