India has introduced new rules for deep-sea fishing in its Exclusive Economic Zone. These rules empower local fishermen and cooperatives while banning foreign vessels. The focus is on utilizing ...

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

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

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

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 ...

Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise “urgent concerns” about long-lasting effects if large-scale commercial mining ...

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

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

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Atlantic Fish Co, a startup based in North Carolina, has raised USD 1.2 million (EUR 1.04 million) in new funding to continue ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Did you know over 70% of the Earth is covered by the ocean? Oceans are vital to us humans as most of the oxygen we breath comes from tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton that live near the water's ...