Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

Intensive seabed trawling may accelerate carbon emissions, as new research reveals its disruptive impact on ocean sediments.

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

Over the following decades, as the global web of deep-sea cables expanded ... These usually occur in depths of 200-300m (but commercial fishing is increasingly pushing into deeper waters ...

The deep sea is home to habitats and species found nowhere else on Earth, and provides essential environmental services. Despite its importance, its vast size and challenging conditions mean there is ...

But for seamounts worldwide, this wealth is threatened. More and more, deep-sea fishing trawlers drag nets weighted with heavy chains across seamounts to catch schools of fish that congregate ...

Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - but the stoplight loosejaw emits red light as well. This light is invisible to both prey and predators, and probably acts like a ...

Deep Ocean Clues to a Million-Year-Old ... Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing Habits to Adapt to Climate Change Oct. 21, 2024 ...

We took to the sea to test the best spinning ... for lighter bait and moderate lure fishing for fish up to about 10 pounds; medium-heavy (MH), for heavy and deep lure and bait fishing for fish ...

They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep-sea octopuses that have slender protrusions trailing from their suckers called cirri. The role of cirri is not known, but it’s thought to have ...