If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, oceans researchers say that just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The findings highlight the potential for a lack of understanding ...