Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

The potential ecological consequences of deep-sea mining gained attention recently after a team of European researchers, through collecting data from an industrial trial, reported a sharp reduction in ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have been revealed. Scientists have analysed samples from the seafloor in the ...

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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

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Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Following on from the earlier series 'Trawlermen', documentary series `Trawlermen: Hunting the Catch' follows fishermen around the clock as they embark on deep-sea fishing trips. From Shetland to ...