Deep-sea carbon cycling is poorly constrained ... the prevalence and diversity of seabed carbon sources. The sea floor is emerging as a source of carbon to the overlying ocean.

Life on the deep ocean floor is still a mysterious realm that scientists have only just begun to inventory. They worry that this new gold rush will do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other ...

mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Beneath the Pacific ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

They may be “abundant” and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals growing larger than their shallow-water relatives.

“The processes in the deep sea are very slow. The abundances of animals are low, the bioturbation and movement of sediments is slow. So it’s not going be somewhere that recovers quickly.” Even so, ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are racing to understand how microplastics are transported to the deep-sea floor in an effort to combat the ...