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

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes in the water column where many creatures live.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

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

Mining of these rock-like nodules was the topic of discussion of experts and industry representatives gathered in Tempe on ...

The order seeks swift permits for mining nickel, cobalt and other minerals from the sea floor. Critics say it threatens both ocean life and global agreements.

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

Understanding these connections, he said, is key to predicting how deep-sea ecosystems might recover from seabed mining. He added there’s also limited understanding about how sediment plumes ...

Mining not only produces deep scars on the sea floor and a plume of sediment in the water column, he said, it also removes the hard substrate that many organisms need as an anchor on the abyssal ...

If future deep-sea mining operations release sediment plumes into the water column, as proposed, the debris could interfere with animals’ feeding, disrupt food webs and alter animals’ behaviors.