For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the mining equipment. Researchers worked in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ( CCZ) ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

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Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...

Erik Zhivkoplias receives funding from Formas research grant 2020-01048. Robert Blasiak receives funding from Formas research grant 2020-01048. Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being ...

For decades, vast stretches of ocean beyond national borders have been governed by patchwork rules and weak oversight. On ...

Deep sea pressure reverse osmosis at 400 to 600 meters drives membrane filtration, cutting energy use more than 50 percent ...