The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Hawaiian gold coral in the deep ocean. (Photo credit: HURL) Layers of coral skeleton laid down over the past 1,000 years can be seen in this polished section of a deep sea coral. (Photo by M. McCarthy ...

The U.S. wants to mine the deep sea. But economists warn that leaders aren't taking the full value of the oceans into account ...

The possibility of a gold rush at the ... many creatures live in the deep seabed, including microbes, sea worms, mollusks, octopuses, other-worldly fish species, coral and the adorable Casper ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

The orb's gold color is also a mystery ... nutrient-rich water that sustained a thriving ecosystem of deep-sea corals and a nursery for Pacific white skates (Bathyraja spinosissima) — little ...

Interest in deep-sea mining has increased globally in recent years. And even as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the ...

The nodules are also a unique habitat, like coral gardens in miniature ... CIA plot to recover a Russian nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a cover story. The CIA leased a ship for ...

The colonial false gold coral Savalia displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Octocorals can create coral gardens and animal forests in the oceans, particularly in ...

Backers of deep-sea mining say it could help provide the gold, copper and other minerals ... ripple through shallower ecosystems such as the coral reefs that ring the islands of the South Pacific ...

A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in Ohio ...

The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers. Coral reefs ... (Blaudruck) or gold-and-black ...