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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

A research team led by Prof. Sun Chaomin from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has ...

Glowing sea animals use bioluminescence powered by luciferin to communicate, attract prey and defend themselves, turning the ...

Erik Zhivkoplias receives funding from Formas research grant 2020-01048. Robert Blasiak receives funding from Formas research grant 2020-01048. Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being ...

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 ...