Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of microplastics into the deep sea, according to new research published today.

Beyond The Metals Co, other companies eyeing deep-sea mining include California-based Impossible Metals, Russia's JSC Yuzhmorgeologiya, Blue Minerals Jamaica, China Minmetals, and Kiribati's ...

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 ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Olivia Munn has some questions, and feelings, about Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission, with famous names including Katy Perry and Gayle King set to be on board. Munn served as Jenna Bush ...

Scientists have uncovered a disturbing secret at the bottom of the Great Blue Hole, located off the coast of Belize. Following an expedition in 2022 led by a team from the University of Frankfurt, ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

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Deep sea mining involves removing mineral deposits and metals from the ocean’s seabed. There are three types of such mining: taking deposit-rich polymetallic nodules off the ocean floor, mining ...

An international team of researchers headed down to the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, known as the Calypso Deep, around 3.2 ... UB Chair on Sustainable Blue Economy.

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere except the East Greenland Sea. Nearly all March monthly average extents since ...