No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, China's foreign ministry said on ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

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

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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 ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

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

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the European Marine Board’s (EMB) Deep Sea and Ocean Health Working Group defined the deep sea as the water column and seabed below 200 ...