Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

Despite opposition investors are still looking at deep-sea mining technology.

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 ...

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

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

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greenpeace International (@greenpeace) Emerging from the ocean depths into the ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Deep-sea mining is highly controversial partly because the deep seabed is more or less untouched and still relatively poorly understood. "If you're not sure what's down there, then leave it alone ...