Five thousand meters beneath the Pacific Ocean is a deep-sea mining hotbed and a swarm of odd creatures that need protecting.

The resuspension of seafloor sediments—triggered by human activities such as bottom trawling as well as natural processes ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Researchers in Japan found a deposit worth $26.6 billion. The financial impacts are beneficial, but not the environmental ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The scan of the storied ship was carried out over three weeks in 2022 by Magellan, a deep-sea mapping company based in the Channel Islands. Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National ...