New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

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 ...

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

Scientists have found microbial traces in deep-sea blue volcanic mud, offering crucial insights into how life may thrive in ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

Deep-sea mining operations could potentially disrupt marine ecosystems by releasing nutrient-poor sediments that essentially ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...