Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

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

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

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 ...

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, he ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

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

Polymetallic nodules and an abyssal urchin (AFP ... "Greenpeace has long campaigned to stop deep sea mining from beginning in the Pacific due to the damage it could do to delicate, deep sea ...

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