It is poised to advance deep-sea research from traditional qualitative analysis toward an intelligent, interpretable and ...

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

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

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

In the inky depths of the Central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a new ...

Plastic waste is one of the most visible signs of ocean pollution, breaking down into microplastics that infiltrate the ...

A research team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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 ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates.

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

The Great Blue Hole in Belize, a colossal sinkhole in the Caribbean, has become a focal point for new research, revealing a ...

Scientists from The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census made the discovery during two 2025 expeditions with the Schmidt ...