Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

How do fish survive in the extreme conditions of the deep sea—amid icy cold, darkness, and immense water pressure? A genomic study provides surprising answers: A single mutated gene might have ...

The deep sea, a realm of perpetual darkness, crushing pressure, and cold temperatures, is home to some of the most unusual and mysterious creatures on Earth. Recent discoveries have unveiled a host of ...

High pressure and High pressure environments -- High pressure: molecules, chemical processes and cellular structures -- The high pressure micro-environment of vertebrate load bearing joints- Effects ...

What if the key to solving the world’s growing water crisis lies not on land but deep beneath the ocean’s surface? With millions of people lacking access to clean water and traditional desalination ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is an independent entity established under a UN convention that is working on developing a code to regulate deep-sea mining ...