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

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

A company which had dreams of becoming the world’s largest deep sea mining company has declared bankruptcy. Norwegian company, Loke Marine Minerals, aimed to hold licences in the Pacific and the ...

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

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Long-term data from a deep-sea observatory shows hurricanes transport reef sediments and pollutants to the deep ocean, ...

This undated photo shows a drilling platform at Huizhou 19-6 oilfield in the eastern South China Sea. The China National ...

and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep-sea fish, the researchers reconstructed their evolutionary history, revealing how vertebrates ...