One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline ...

As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor.

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining ...

Scientists involved in a new deep-sea research effort report that a recent mining test unexpectedly led to the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown species living 4,000 meters (13,123-feet ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how deep sea mining for minerals is stilfling marine life ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...