(CNN) — 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.
In the summer of 2024, an expedition ventured to the depths of the ocean, navigating through waters 31,000 feet deep (for reference, the Titanic rests roughly 12,500 feet below the surface). The ...
By Andrew D. Thaler When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...
Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.
The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...
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 ...
Naoki Saito, a researcher at the Integrated Research Center for Nature Positive Technology of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (and who is also affiliated ...