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

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, he ...

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

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

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

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

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

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

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...