The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

Longer term, there are fears that damage to deep-sea landscapes could have ripple effects through the ocean and potentially affect fisheries. Mining could even affect the “dark oxygen ...

Yet, researchers already think there are dozens of possible effects on the seabed. And precisely forecasting the impacts of deep-sea mining is ... Species living in the dark zone above the abyss ...

The lives of most sharks ... like this [...] but there are still some outstanding knowledge gaps on the species,” Devine says. Though far from the Arctic, the deep sea of the Caribbean is ...

Wolfish typically live in waters as deep as 500m. The sheer amount of unexplored deep sea, including the abyssal plains that can reach depths between 3,000m and 6,000m, means there's plenty of ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this ... when you're down there with a remotely operated vehicle or other ...

Dr Ian Miller, chief science and innovation officer at the National Geographic Society which provided funding for the study, says: 'There is so ... warned that new deep-sea mining could disturb ...

“It’s the unknown,” says Erich Hoyt, author of Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live In ... number of species down there.” ...

The former is hidden beneath kilometers of cold, dark, crushingly ... we know everything or that there are no benefits to higher-resolution optical data of the deep sea, says Brett Denevi, a ...

Almost all life in the ocean depends on the upper waters where sunlight filters in, known as the photic zone – but new ...