The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

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 ...

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

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

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

Aquarius Reef Base,” curated by artist and diver Hope Ginsburg, is on display at Birch Aquarium through February.

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have ...

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

Far beneath the waves, animals evolve in strange and surprising ways, often becoming much larger than their shallow-water ...

The waters around Australia are hiding some bizarre creatures in the depths, and some of them look like they're not from this ...

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