4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen'
Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About
This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...
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Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii ... creating plumes. While the discharge depth is still under discussion, some mining operators propose releasing the waste at midwater depths, around ...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
Team discovers 'dark oxygen' on the seafloor
Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more. But as children grow into adults, they often dismiss something new that ...
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How Deep Is the Ocean?
Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.
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Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
In this photo provided by Gigablue, an instrument called a rosette, an oceanographic device used to collect water samples at different depths, is lowered off a research vessel in the Pacific Ocean off ...
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Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
an oceanographic device used to collect water samples at different depths, is lowered off a research vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand, as part of an ocean carbon ...