The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

"Being able to study these remote and poorly-known deep-sea regions is a huge privilege." Experts warn ongoing crisis at ...

Bait balls are not rare in the ocean. But the recent placement of one gave whale watchers a "once-in-a-lifetime" look at how ...

But even when taking these natural changes into account, the results of the mining tests were clear. The number of species in ...

The study probed the effect of the emerging industry’s impact on biodiversity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The number of sea-floor animals fell by 37 per cent in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, according to a study published on ...

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

University of Gothenburg and National Oceanography Centre spent more than five years studying how biodiversity could be ...