Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

For the first time, scientists have collected measurements close to a giant iceberg, giving an unprecedented window into the ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

For the first time, scientists have collected measurements close to a giant iceberg, giving an unprecedented window into the ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

The study warns that ecological recovery would likely take centuries or longer, adding to the multitude of existing warnings from scientists that deep sea mining could have severe and long-lasting ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

Long-term data from a deep-sea observatory shows hurricanes transport reef sediments and pollutants to the deep ocean, ...