Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019. Hundreds of researchers have called for a pause on deep-sea mining until scientists learn more, which could take years. Some ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. "I'm truly sorry for ...

Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019. Hundreds of researchers have called for a pause on deep-sea mining until scientists learn more, which could take years. Some ...

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years have shown how the removal of nodules can put seafloor creatures at risk by disrupting their habitats. However, the process can also ...