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 ...

A new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study has found that more than half of the zooplankton forming the ocean’s food building ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published today in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining ...

Sea urchins are simple creatures, wandering the seafloor without thought. Or so we thought. They are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which first appeared during the Cambrian explosion. Their list ...

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These ...

Zooplankton from the eastern Clarion Clipperton Zone. (Goetze, Ellis, Cazares via SWNS) Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

This zone contains a vast amount of marine life, potentially over 90% of all ocean life, and supports important commercial and recreational fisheries. Creatures in the twilight zone help mitigate ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash a silent disaster in a vital, hidden part of our oceans. That's the message from a new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ...

Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. Originally published on talker.news, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...