Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

This would map out a baseline for life in the abyssal plain, so that potential harm can be better understood ... Each one probably started as a shard of hard surface -- a shark tooth or a fish ear ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.A study published in ...

Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these ... through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between ...

This would map out a baseline for life in the abyssal plain, so that potential harm can ... as a shard of hard surface -- a shark tooth or a fish ear bone -- that settled on the seabed.