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 ...

Deep beneath the ocean, scientists uncovered thriving microbial life in one of Earth’s harshest environments—an area with a pH of 12, where survival seems nearly impossible. Using lipid biomarkers ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve ...

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 ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

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

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

Scientists discovered a new deep-sea limpet, Pectinodonta nautilus, living on a sunken log near Johnston Atoll, showing ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...