The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

“Forty-four years later, the mining tracks themselves ... “The processes in the deep sea are very slow. The abundances of animals are low, the bioturbation and movement of sediments is slow. So it’s ...

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

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

In an unprecedented discovery, scientists have successfully revived algae buried beneath the Baltic Sea seabed for nearly ...

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

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.

Plus, each claw kicks up a relatively small puff of sediment as it plucks its ... not fully returned to the area 40 years later. Opposition to deep-sea mining has been fierce enough to scupper ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.