This year’s winning images include a curious leopard seal, a swarm of jellyfish, and a very grumpy looking Japanese warbonnet ...

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 ...

Tamsin Greig is sharp in as Hester, but this production does little of interest with drawing room drama The Deep Blue Sea The Deep Blue Sea is not a jolly play. Indeed, it is a pretty dreary one.

To Read the Con Side of This Debate, Go Here. The anti-mining camp disagrees, arguing that deep-sea mining poses massive risks. Financially, the projects could impose huge monetary losses on ...

Despite covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, the vast majority of the deep sea remains unexplored. In fact, scientists have now revealed that humans have directly observed less than 0.001% of ...

Humanity has only explored 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a May 2025 study. Credit - Getty Images The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track ...

The Metals Company and the Trump administration are trying to circumvent international deep sea mining rules. The Metals Company and the Trump administration are trying to circumvent international ...

Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast ...

And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of the aquatic community isn’t talked about or printed on baby clothes.

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...

Deep sea mining adapts technology from the offshore oil and gas industry, an existing American competitive advantage. Additional innovations like remote operated vehicles mean these minerals can ...

In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be ...