Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades, scientists ...

Deep-sea mining operations could potentially disrupt marine ecosystems by releasing nutrient-poor sediments that essentially ...

Isabelle Ng receives funding from the James Cook University Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Alexandre Siqueira receives funding from Edith Cowan University as a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow.