These include the sunlight zone (epipelagic), the twilight zone (mesopelagic), the midnight zone (bathypelagic), the abyssal zone (abyssopelagic), and the hadal zone (trenches) ...

The ocean twilight zone, often called the mesopelagic zone, lies between 200 and 1,000 meters below the surface. Sunlight grows faint here, creating a dim, perpetual dusk.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.