In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

This continental slope plunges into depths sunlight cannot reach, through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (1 ...