In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such ...

Extracting rare metals from the ocean floor risks harming largely unexplored ecosystems and presents a dilemma the ...

A significant proportion of the scientific community and environmental organisations insist that the precautionary principle ...

The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

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 ...

With the prospect of deep-sea mining once again hitting the headlines, opposing parties remain locked in a bitter dispute.

Vowing to “counter China’s growing influence over seabed mineral resources,” the Trump administration is opening a new front ...

“It’s the unknown,” says Erich Hoyt, author of Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live In. “You look out on the ocean and you might see a dolphin ...

The oil-and-gas and deep-sea-mining industries require extensive knowledge, and they pay for it. But, with a few exceptions, the characteristics of the deepest trenches are largely unknown.

The excavation equipment varies depending on the type of mineral deposit. Polymetallic nodules, typically found on flat seabed and coexisting with deep-sea sediments, can be collected using mechanical ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup ... where it uses robotic claws to grab polymetallic nodules rich in minerals. Impossible Metals claims that its UAV is less disruptive to the fragile ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...