There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...
When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea ...
New research shows La Niña may have driven the collapse of deep-sea corals in the Galápagos, lasting over 1,000 years.
The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists ...
Environmental questions plague deep-sea mining ambitions, but US bodies say the sector needs an adaptive management approach.
But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...
Meet the bigfin squid, a quid with 'elbows', enormous rippling fins and tentacles like long, rippling strands of spaghetti ...
Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...
Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...
Although The Metals Company, the presumable leader in deep-sea mining, receives the lion's share of investors' attention, ...
Scientists have discovered that polymetallic nodules in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone generate 'dark oxygen' 4,000 meters below the ocean surface, without sunlight. The finding challenges long ...
Darkness dominates most of the ocean. Sunlight fades quickly as you descend, and by the time you reach the deep sea, natural ...