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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

The UK government will continue to sponsor two deep sea mining exploration licences, despite publicly supporting a moratorium ...

The transport ministry said in a statement that U.S.-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will search intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the ...