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

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

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

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

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

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

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

As an oceanographer studying marine life n an area of the Pacific ... Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood.

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...