A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

Among those on the chopping block are the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES), the Alaska Ocean Observing System, Alaska Sea Grant, the Alaska Center for ...

Geographically known as Sycamore Knoll, the natural underwater structure looks like a bump pushing up from the ocean floor, with a flat, table-like top. It has been studied by scientists for years ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at accelerating the collection of critical minerals from the ocean floor to enhance defense, infrastructure, and energy capabilities.

But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, ...