For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...
Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...
The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...
A new deep-sea species now carries a scientific name chosen by the internet, and researchers say the crowdsourced approach ...
A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.
Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...
NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom ...