1. MEER: Extraordinary flourishing ecosystem in the deepest ocean

2. Microbial ecosystems and ecological driving forces in the deepest ocean sediments

3. Seasonally and niche-differentiated diversity of active, dormant and dead microbes in coastal waters and surface sediments

4. Sediment depth impacts microbial community structure in methane seepage regions

5.Global marine metagenomics reveals the functional diversity and ecological adaptations of diazotrophs across marine ecosystems

6. Sand encased by fine-grained sediment regulates methane migration through the gas hydrate stability zone

7. The ice-covered Aurora hydrothermal vent field, Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean: ultramafic-influenced venting at a mafic axial volcano on Earth's slowest spreading center

8. Influence of seabed heterogeneity on benthic megafaunal community patterns in abyssal nodule fields

9. Metabolic and population profiles of active subseafloor autotrophs in young oceanic crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

10. Comparing support for deep-sea mining among the mass public and environmental non-governmental organizations

11. Black Carbon Formation at Cold Seeps and Its Potential Contribution to the Marine Black Carbon Budget

12. Identifying potential nutrient acquisition mechanisms for long-term survival: adaptive evolution of Halomonas isolated from subseafloor crustal fluids

13. Orbital cycle records in shallow unconsolidated sediments: implications for global carbon cycle and hydrate system evolution in deep-sea area sediments of the Qiongdongnan Basin

14. Status of global seafloor mapping effort and priority areas for future mapping

15. Drivers of inorganic and organic carbon removal in aged oceanic crust

16. Modeling the controls on microbial iron and manganese reduction in methanic sediments

17. Compound-specific carbon and hydrogen isotope analysis traces archaeal lipid signatures in cold seep marine systems

18. Hydrogen, single-carbon compounds, and thermal regime in the oceanic ultramafic-dominated lithosphere: insights from a deep borehole on the Atlantis Massif

19. Rapid burial and intense degradation of organic matter drive active silicate weathering in the subsurface sediments of the ocean's deepest realm

20. Tides-generated nonlinear internal waves transport sediment in the deep-sea bottom boundary layer

21. Stability of Reactive Iron-Bound Organic Carbon During Sulfidization of Iron Oxides: Insights From Methane-Seep Sediments

22. Sulfur Isotope Biogeochemistry Controlled by Sulfate Reduction Activity in Cold Seep Sediments

23. Marked Variability in Distance-Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa

24. Water mass mixing controls methane cycling and emission in highly hydrodynamic regions of the open ocean

25. Diversity and evolution of prokaryotic viral lytic proteins

26. Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms

27. Global Distribution and Biogeochemical Significance of Magnetotactic Bacteria in Deep-Sea Cold Seep Ecosystems

28. A marine fungus Alternaria alternata FB1 degrades polypropylene

29. Limited microbial degradation of elevated concentrations of dissolved organic carbon in the deep ocean

30. Zooplankton community structure in the abyssal benthic boundary layer varies over time due to nonuniform species response to seasonal organic-matter fluxes

31. Geological, geophysical, and geobiological investigation of the inactive Nawaay`as hydrothermal vent field at West Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge

32. Increased temperature enhances microbial-mediated lignin decomposition in river sediment

33. Metatranscriptomes-based sequence similarity networks uncover genetic signatures within parasitic freshwater microbial eukaryotes

34. Archaea show different geographical distribution patterns compared to bacteria and fungi in Arctic marine sediments

35. Developing a microfluidic-based epicPCR reveals diverse potential hosts of the mcrA gene in marine cold seep

36. The Same Source of Microbes has a Divergent Assembly Trajectory Along a Hot Spring Flowing Path

37. Insights into prokaryotic communities and their potential functions in biogeochemical cycles in cold seep

38. Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track

39. Abyssal seafloor as a key driver of ocean trace-metal biogeochemical cycles

40. Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems

41. Electron flow in hydrogenotrophic methanogens under nickel limitation

42. Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

43. The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides

44. Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation

45. In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control

46. Methanol transfer supports metabolic syntrophy between bacteria and archaea

47. Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump

48. Cold seeps are potential hotspots of deep-sea nitrogen loss driven by microorganisms across 21 phyla

49. Uncovering dynamic transcriptional regulation of methanogenesis via single-cell imaging of archaeal gene expression

50. Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining

51. Geopolymerization threatens the persistence of organic carbon associated with iron in anoxic environments

52. Endemism shapes viral ecology and evolution in globally distributed hydrothermal vent ecosystems

53. Metal-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane and the Sturtian deglaciation

54. Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms

55. Antarctic seep emergence and discovery in the shallow coastal environment

56. Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs

57. Deep-sea viral diversity and their role in host metabolism of complex organic matter

58. Global patterns and drivers of nitrogen isotope signal in modern marine sediments

59. Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses

60. Unveiling ongoing biogeochemical dynamics of CDOM from surface to deep ocean

61. Preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments sustained by sorption and transformation processes

62. Drag acting on suspended sediment increased by microbial colonization

63. Carbonate weathering enhances nitrogen assimilatory uptake in rivers globally

64. Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years

65. Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

66. Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome

67. A dominant subgroup of marine Bathyarchaeia assimilates organic and inorganic carbon into unconventional membrane lipids

68. Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria

69. Targeted isolation of H2-dependent methylotrophic methanogens by a cocktail approach

70. A Pause or Moratorium for Deep Seabed Mining in the Area? The Legal Basis, Potential Pathways, and Possible Policy Implications

71. The relationship between anaerobic oxidation of methane and dark carbon fixation in methane seep sediments

72. Deep-sea mining and its risks for social-ecological systems: Insights from simulation-based analyses

73. Early colonization of the deep-sea bottom—The protracted build-up of an ecosystem

74. Cyclization of archaeal membrane lipids impacts membrane protein activity and archaellum formation

75. Repeated occurrences of marine anoxia under high atmospheric O2 and icehouse conditions

76. The molecular-level diagenetic clock of sinking marine organic matter

77. Extremophile hotspots linked to containerized industrial waste dumping in a deep-sea basin

78. Oxygen intrusions sustain aerobic nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in anoxic marine zones

79. Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional seascape of the South Pacific

80. Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters

81. How little we've seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor

82. Moderate heating renders 7.8-million-year-old sedimentary organic matter bioavailable

83. Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia

84. A large intraplate hydrogen-rich hydrothermal system driven by serpentinization in the western Pacific: Kunlun

85. A metagenomic perspective on the microbial prokaryotic genome census

86. Biological nitrogen fixation driven by methane anaerobic oxidation supports the complex biological communities in cold-seep habitat

87. Multi-faceted examination of a deepwater seamount reveals ecological patterns among coral and sponge communities in the equatorial Pacific

88. Prophage-encoded chitinase gene supports growth of its bacterial host isolated from deep-sea sediments

89. Distribution patterns and ecological risks of antibiotic resistance genes in the Yap Trench

90. Hologenomic insights into the molecular adaptation of deep-sea coral Bathypathes pseudoalternata