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

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

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

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.

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

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

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These animals have evolved remarkab ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

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

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 ...

A team from the US based Schmidt Ocean Institute and its research vessel MV Falkor together with scientists from Argentina ...

Responding to reports that machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on ...