Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

The Arctic seafloor is cold, unforgiving, and barren. Or is it? Few would argue against the ‘cold’ and ‘unforgiving’ parts, ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

This effect, also called the benthic weathering engine (BWE), occurs because additional ... we can assume that the most favorable conditions for dissolution will occur within the oxic zone.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have conducted an extensive investigation ...

Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental adaptations of these organisms. The study suggests diverse microbial ...

Bowen notes that, following a two-month period of consultation on the Southern Ocean zone that received 3285 submissions – the originally proposed 5,000 km2 area was reduced down to 1000 km2.

1 College of Oceanography and Ecological Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai ... We argue that integrating bioindicators of major pollutants with other benthic indexes into the developed ...