A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

The deep sea, a realm of perpetual darkness, crushing pressure, and cold temperatures, is home to some of the most unusual ...

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

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 ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

New research reveals how deep-sea mining waste could devastate the ocean's twilight zone. Learn how these sediment plumes ...

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

New industry-backed research shows how waste from deep-sea mining could have far-reaching effects on fish and their food.