Building upon previous research, University of Rhode Island Professor of Ocean Engineering and Oceanography Brennan Phillips ...

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution captured close-up images of a WWI-era submarine lost at sea 108 ...

Microplastics distribution was mapped from the surface to the deep sea at a global scale. Source: Florida Atlantic University ...

Researchers say our understanding of Earth’s largest biome is based on a tiny, unrepresentative sample dominated by just a ...

Trump's order aims to boost U.S. access to critical minerals Environmental groups warn of irreversible biodiversity loss Congressional hearing shows partisan divide on deep-sea mining April 29 ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...

The tiny hitchhikers might be yucky, but they’re also a sign of a thriving deep-sea ecosystem. Behold, the latest in deep-sea fashion: An unfortunate fish sporting parasitic copepods as pigtails.

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the Trump administration after years of hitting roadblocks in international negotiations. The island nation of Nauru ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...