The article explores how deep-sea creatures adapt to extreme ocean pressures through unique evolutionary traits like flexible cell membranes, gelatinous bodies, and high TMAO levels. These ...

Stunning new deep-sea footage shows the sunken Titan submersible’s severed tail cone resting on the ocean floor after its doomed voyage last June. The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation ...

The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has created shockwaves by demanding that the rules for deep sea mining are agreed in the next two years. Environmental groups warn that this will lead to a ...

The controversial race to mine the deep sea is ramping up around the world. Here’s why Norway is taking a leading role. Photo: Loke Marine Minerals A disagreement between deep-sea miner The ...

In 2011, a group of divers looking for treasure and salvage in the Baltic Sea took a sonar image of a 70-metre-long and steely-looking object lying 300 feet below sea level. Some claimed that ...

The ocean's twilight zone is deep, dark, and -- according to new research -- iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this region 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea surface, where levels of iron ...

Knowledge of creatures living in the deep sea, which could be impacted by mining, is limited Norway has become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

The ocean's twilight zone is deep, dark, and—according to new research—iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this region 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea surface, where levels of iron ...

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As a result the campaign group could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing controversial plans to begin deep-sea mining. Member states of the UN's International Seabed Authority could choose in ...