A group of leading marine scientists, led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander (GEOMAR), has published a Future Science Brief on ...

Where does the deep sea begin? Definitions vary across science and legal frameworks. For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the ...

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

Using creative thinking and Lego technology, an Agawam robotics team engaged in research, problem-solving, coding and ...

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

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 ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only ...