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Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex ...

Research led by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), with the participation of the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

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Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

We still know very little about the ecology of mesophotic ecosystems, but they support long-lived protected species that form ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

A new UK research network led by the University of Southampton is investigating how the gut microbiome influences the brain and immune system. Wi ...