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Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...

In 1979, deep-sea mining equipment made large tracks in one part of the Pacific Ocean seabed and these remain there today, ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

The article’s main authors are Miquel Canals, from the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Earth Sciences; Georg Hanke, from ...

Sea levels surged in 2024, rising faster than expected due to warming oceans. Unlike previous years, where melting ice ...