The Blake Plateau, an astonishing deep-sea mountain range, features striking pillars of marine life alongside humanity’s ...

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

T he Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track approval for seabed mining critical ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...

With China dominating the supply chain, the US sees opportunity at the bottom of the ocean but the science is far from ...

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans.

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources.

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years ... including rules and guidelines relating to mining waste, discharge depths and environmental protection. These decisions could set ...

Kerala’s ruling and opposition parties unite with fishers to oppose Centre’s deep-sea mining auction, citing threats to ...