This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

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

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The copper and gold mining project developed by the Canadian mining company Euro Sun Mining in the Rovina area in Hunedoara ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...