Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

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

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones ... They then grew slowly, by attracting minerals that ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

The proposal to mine the Kollam Bank for construction sand poses an existential threat for fishing communities and marine ...

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

Exploratory deep-sea mining began in the 1970s ... The leftover slurry of water, sediment and crushed nodules is then dumped back into the middle of the water column, creating plumes.