A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

The Black Sea and Mediterranean Seas are both almost ... The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys of the deep ocean floor, and these studies drove geologists to finally accept ...

After all, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the sea floor in an area ... 380 meters deep in the recently uncovered area. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) If food and energy ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider ... and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...