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

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

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

Plastic waste has haunted the world’s oceans for decades. What you may not realize is that the most dangerous pieces are ...

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

The transport ministry said in a statement that U.S.-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will search intermittently ...

Malaysia’s transport ministry announced on Wednesday that a private firm will resume a deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines ...

For more than a thousand days starting back in 2014, search teams scoured the ocean looking for any sign of the missing ...