Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean ...

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

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

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

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 ...

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery won’t be quick.

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...

The research shows sediment waste discharged from deep sea mining could disrupt marine life in the mid-water, between 200-1500 meters deep, known as the "twilight zone".

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...