Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say.

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

A multi-institutional team that includes researchers from the University of Delaware, University of California San Diego and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), among others, published a ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...