An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

I n 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed.Decades later, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature, co-led by the ...

A new study documents how a group of deep-sea researchers unknowingly scooped up a megalodon tooth from the ocean floor in June 2022. In June 2022, researchers with the Ocean Exploration Trust used a ...

AN examination of deep-sea sediments deposited south of Australia and Sumatra during and after the last polarity reversal of the Earth's magnetic field resulted in the discovery of a zone ...

The sediment surrounding the nodules is home to a vast array of life, and the disturbance of this will also impact all those animals, while the sediment discharge and noise pollution could be of ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

At this stage, 17 deep-sea mining contractors hold exploration contracts in the CCZ, which spans more than three million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean — equivalent to the size of India.

These lessons from the deep sea began as the first transatlantic cables were laid in the 19th Century. Cable layers noticed that the Atlantic Ocean gets shallower in the middle, inadvertently ...

Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding an end to deep sea mining, in front of the Ministry of Industry in Prague, Czech Republic, June 1, 2023.