On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

The deep-sea, covering more than 60% of the Earth's surface, is a realm of mystery. It hosts a diverse range of geological features, which are all subject ...

Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Despite opposition investors are still looking at deep-sea mining technology.

"Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic ... survive in the brine pools, the sediment layers have remained undisturbed and have ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...