The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

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

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline ...

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

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

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

Glowing sea animals use bioluminescence powered by luciferin to communicate, attract prey and defend themselves, turning the ...

But even when taking these natural changes into account, the results of the mining tests were clear. The number of species in ...

Seafloor animals decreased by 37% in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, a landmark report has found. Scientists from the ...

A five-year-long investigation into how deep-sea mining impacts biodiversity has finally been published. View on euronews ...