Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

Imagine an underwater world where tiny creatures hold the fate of the planet’s carbon cycles in their delicate fins. Beneath ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...

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

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

In Finspan, players take on the role of marine biologists, exploring the ocean’s depths ... oceanic depths — sunlight (surface), twilight (middle depths) and midnight (deep sea).

The researchers were aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research ... This far down is the bathypelagic zone, or midnight zone, and no sunlight penetrates here. Despite the extreme depth ...

It's generally thought that the zone got its name from its liminal state: a murky space where the last rays of sunlight can reach ...