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 ...
Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...
Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...
Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.
The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
Scientists discover ‘thriving ecosystem’ of deep sea creatures after iceberg breaks off in Antarctica - Ecosystem could be ...
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Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.