Around 90% of species in the ... and start extracting. A US deep-sea mining industry is essential to counter China’s aggressive pursuit of ocean minerals, a White House spokesperson said ...

About 90 percent of species found in the Clarion Clipperton Zone have never been identified, yet they may be at risk from mining for minerals such as cobalt and nickel. This sea urchin ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

The US will need to secure critical minerals from non-Chinese sources because the future will be, by necessity, metals ...

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...

The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

Learn more about why understanding how life works in the deep sea is crucial to understanding the entire planet, and that’s ...

Interest in deep-sea mining has increased globally in recent years. And even as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the ...

Researchers say more than a fifth of the planet’s ocean — which makes up 70 percent of the surface of the Earth — has been ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...