Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

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

Long-term data from a deep-sea observatory shows hurricanes transport reef sediments and pollutants to the deep ocean, ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

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