There is growing alarm over climate and ecological risks of deep-sea mining, even as companies like Impossible Metals ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Once the UN High Seas Treaty enters into force, experts say it will boost the health of the ocean and its role in tackling ...

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

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

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

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

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...