Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which ...

The Trump administration is considering leasing seabed areas off American Samoa for mineral extraction, sparking ...

The Trump administration considers selling leases for seabed mineral extraction near American Samoa, igniting debate between ...

Seaweed absorbs rare minerals and elements from seawater as it grows. A new initiative from Blue Evolution, called Orca Minerals, aims to harvest the materials.

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific ...

Researchers argue that expanding deep-sea exploration is vital to understanding and managing these marine habitats ...

Deep-sea mining concerns the extraction of minerals from the ocean ... has exploration rights in two areas of the Pacific Ocean and has been evaluating U.S. locations since 2019. On Tuesday, it ...

Deep-sea mining typically involves dredging ... potato-shaped rocks that store several rare earth minerals. The location of these nodules, and other types of extractable minerals, dictate which ...

The snails became the first animal to be listed as "endangered" due to threats to two of its three habitat locations from deep sea mining. Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former ...

Only 1.5% of coral habitat in the world is considered pristine, so the protection of the seabed is one of the most robust ...

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

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