Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ecosystems rebuild.

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 ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve ...

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

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface. The marine ecosystem is the largest and most abundant in the world. But most of the ocean is permanently dark and incredibly difficult to observe. As ...

(CNN) — Ancient glass sponges. A Barbie-pink sea pig sauntering along the seafloor. A transparent unicumber hovering in the depths. (CNN) — Ancient glass sponges. A Barbie-pink sea pig sauntering ...

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Persistent lack of oxygen in Earth’s oceans affected animal evolution Photo of Little Horse Canyon near Orr Ridge, Utah. The oceans became oxygen-rich as they are today about 600 million years ago, ...

New research reveals how deep-sea mining waste could devastate the ocean's twilight zone. Learn how these sediment plumes ...