Scientists warn deep-sea mining plumes could starve tiny marine life, disrupting food webs and threatening fisheries View on ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

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 ...

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

By Aimee Gabay The Norwegian government has granted permission for the construction and operation of the Nussir copper mine ...

By examining over 47,600 coastal facilities across the US, more than 11%, or 5,500 facilities are projected to be at risk of ...

The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the ocean is being threatened with extinction by microplastics, a new study has revealed. The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — For some, it may just be a school project, but for 21-year-old Luz Garcia, it’s the opportunity to make a difference. Garcia, a student at Utah Valley University, started working on ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published today in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining ...