Scientists plan deep-sea expedition to probe 'dark oxygen'

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...
Phys.org

Deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone,' first study of its kind finds

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

'Salty blob' in the deep ocean once controlled Earth’s climate

Scientists uncover how ancient ocean salt controlled carbon storage and shaped global temperatures at the end of the last ice age.
Science Daily

The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...
CNN

Scientists say they cruised the ocean in a deep-sea submersible and came across an undiscovered ecosystem

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...