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

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

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining ...

The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long ...

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

The ocean floor is typically home to dead whales, sunken ships, and long-abandoned shopping carts. Mysterious artefacts such ...

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

What appeared to be tentacles washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach are the remains of a deep-sea creature called a seven-arm ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...