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

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

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

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

The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity of our seas, new species are discovered all the time thanks to ...

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 ...

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

Ghost sharks inhabit some of the darkest and least explored regions of the deep sea. Researchers have captured rare footage ...

An international research team working at 13,123 feet (4,000 meters) deep uncovered a remarkable number of previously unknown ...

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

The findings indicate that the overall ecological impact of the mining activity was milder than feared, but there was still a ...