A chemical boundary in the deep sea may have helped shape abyssal ecosystem composition based on body type. The discovery has implications for how these communities could be affected by climate change ...

There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies just a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...

The first unified vision of the world ocean biodiversity, based on analysis of DNA sequences from the surface to deep-ocean sediments, unveils the rich and unknown life in the abyssal realm, the last ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Deep-sea mining has been approved for testing in the Pacific Ocean by the International Seabed Authority for the first ...