Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development provides an effective tool for marine ecological research and conservation ...

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Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ... allowing scientists like her to collect samples, including tears. Martin told me she would army crawl ...

The Metals Company (TMC) will instead seek permission from the U.S. to start deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean, rather than from the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA).

The RSV Nuyina icebreaker is part-way though its first mission dedicated solely to marine science. Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region, scientists have ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean and found that all species contained ...

Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers ...

The phytoplankton—tiny photosynthetic marine algae—weren’t dead, but in a deep “sleep mode” known ... old—from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, bringing them back to full viability.

The company is looking to mine the deep sea with robotic vehicles that suck up the nodules off the ocean floor in a process Barron has claimed will be less damaging than land-based mining. In the past ...