A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with international partners, finds that ...

Seafloor animals decreased by 37% in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, a landmark report has found. Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Gothenburg and National ...

While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...

Sperm whales dive into the midnight zone, using echolocation to track giant squid, returning scarred breathing hard, alive at ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise "urgent concerns" about long-lasting effects if large-scale commercial mining ...

Despite everything stacked against them, a variety of life thrives at ocean depths with bone-crushing pressure, low-oxygen, no light, and immensely cold temperatures. A new study analyzes the ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface, far from human notice and as bustling as any city. Animals such as tubeworms and clams live crowded around plumes of methane that bubble up ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...