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

Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

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

No country has mined ... has been done on how deep-sea mining might impact the ocean’s role in absorbing a quarter of all current carbon dioxide emissions. In light of the unknown impacts ...

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

These animals are estimated to grow up to 23 feet or so in length and weigh around 1,100 pounds, but this colossal squid was no more than ... Michelle Taylor, a deep-sea ecologist at University ...

As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ... Additionally, by blocking light, plumes might ...

light and suffocating dust storms. “The deep ocean is one of the last truly wild places on Earth, home to life we’re only beginning to understand. Letting deep-sea mining go forward now would ...