Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Thanks to the Darwin Plus program, the myriad of amazing marine life in the Caribbean deep sea - including sharks - is about to come to light. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Exploring the depths of the Earth’s vast oceans reveals a world full of wonder and mystery, especially within regions like ...

According to the brief, around 28,000 deep-sea creatures have been identified and named, but its authors estimated that there are 2.2 million species that scientists have yet to identify—some 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.

Researchers sequenced DNA from deep-sea sediments around the world and found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than there is higher up in the ocean. What's more, nearly ...

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago. The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared with ...

Scientists say life can survive surprisingly extreme seafloor settings with the right heating. Extreme deep-sea conditions could support life on Earth, other alien worlds - CNET X ...

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years have shown how the removal of nodules can put seafloor creatures at risk by disrupting their habitats.

Deep sea mining threatens sea life, environmentalists say. California law has a solution As mining companies look to the seafloor for critical metals, environmentalists say California’s Right to ...

Deep sea mining threatens sea life, environmentalists say. California law has a solution. Workers disembark from a research vessel in San Diego in 2021 after investigating the effects of deep sea ...