Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Many new microbial genomes have been described from these environments. This image may only be used with appropriate caption and credit.

1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep ... the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look like chimneys on the sea floor ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are no plants; all vent life belongs to the animal kingdom.

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the ... Last month Norway paused plans for deep-sea mining; Russia’s own efforts have halted. Can the prize be grasped? And on what timescale?

The participants will observe litter at sea, on the coast, will analyze in the Arctic seas microplastics - that is, plastic particles of 5 mm and even smaller. Microplastics get accumulated in the ...

The Russian Navy is developing a new generation of deep-submergence rescue vehicles designed for Arctic operation ... up to 1,000 meters and Bester deep-sea rescue submersibles capable of diving ...