The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Research led by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), with the participation of the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Venture beneath the surface of the ocean and you'll find a world as alien as any far-flung destination. In the darkness and ...

When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

The resuspension of seafloor sediments—triggered by human activities such as bottom trawling as well as natural processes ...

The algae was buried in sediment beneath the Baltic Sea with no light or oxygen. Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...