Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...
Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...
Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...
Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...
The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...
When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...