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

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

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Recently, the "Mingyuan Project" has have found that most of them are actually mollusks and do not have a hard shell. Through identification, the team of scientists discovered that 89.4% of the 7564 a ...

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

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...

Microplastics accumulate in hotspots for deep-sea life May 2, 2019 Submarine canyon plastic accumulation is driven by turbidity currents, simulation study shows ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.A study published in ...

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the ... As an oceanographer studying marine life in an area of the Pacific rich in these nodules, I believe that before countries and companies ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...