Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but less is known about the sediments of the ocean floor. Two recent “blue ...

Writing in Nature, Lars Peter Nielsen and colleagues now describe how bacteria in marine sediments use electrical currents to couple biogeochemical processes that are spatially separated on a ...

Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals. Critics fear harm to fragile marine ecosystems. The WWF ...

The calls come after a series of reports estimate high levels of carbon being stored within the top 10cm of seabed sediments. The storage of so-called 'blue carbons' can help reduce the amount of ...

Off the coast of Blekinge, in southern Sweden, at a depth of around 50–60 meters, the bottom sediment has scars that are tens ...

Scientists have discovered something concerning in the deep submarine canyons of Earth’s oceans, and it appears to be growing ...

Tidal power extraction would affect flow speeds, which in tum may alter sediment size on the seabed. Because sediment size is a fundamental determinant of benthic community structure, extraction of ...

Deep seabed minerals are therefore increasingly ... often partially buried in fine grain sediments. Nodules contain a wide variety of metals, including manganese, iron, copper, nickel, cobalt ...

Tiny fragments of plastic have been found buried in seabed sediment more than 150 years old. Scientists discovered the microplastics in core samples taken 2,200m (7,218ft) below the surface of the ...

South Taranaki leaders say the Government is wrong to claim would-be seabed miners are being held up by tikanga Māori. Shane ...