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

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long ...

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

As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor.

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

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

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

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining ...

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

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how deep sea mining for minerals is stilfling marine life ...