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

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how deep sea mining for minerals is stilfling marine life ...

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

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

This story has been updated to reflect that Tåno, Tåsi yan Todu is based in the Mariana Islands. A previous version of the ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor.

The state-of-the-art facility will allow scientists to study, isolate and culture microbes for industrial, biomedical, and ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This ...

India’s first Deep Sea Marine Microbial Repository to study micro-organisms found in extreme marine environments is taking shape at a sea-front campus of the National Institute of Ocean Technology ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition ...

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.