Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.
In the summer of 2024, an expedition ventured to the depths of the ocean, navigating through waters 31,000 feet deep (for reference, the Titanic rests roughly 12,500 feet below the surface). The ...
In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Researchers off the coast of Argentina made an incredible discovery while exploring the area's deep-sea ...
(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.
A new comprehensive study released today by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS), in collaboration with Greenpeace ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...
With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...
Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...
Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...
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