Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve zooplankton and disrupt entire marine food webs - Anadolu Ajansı ...

A new federal proposal to explore deep-sea mining in waters near the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and close ...

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 ...

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.