Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more ... and found that a test mining experiment from 1979 caused lasting sediment changes and reductions in populations of ...

They range from tiny worms in the muddy sediment, to floating sponges tethered ... to recover a Russian nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a cover story. The CIA leased a ship for real ...

The Union environment ministry and the department of fisheries have approved seven deep-sea mining blocks off the ... attached to nodules or within the sediment immediately below.

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

A company which had dreams of becoming the world’s largest deep sea mining company has declared bankruptcy. Norwegian company, Loke Marine Minerals, aimed to hold licences in the Pacific and the ...