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 ...

In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on the floor admiring a row of trays. One contains a jet-black, rubble-like ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor off the coast of American Samoa. The Interior Department announced late ...

The snails became the first animal to be listed as "endangered" due to threats to two of its three habitat locations from deep sea mining. Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former ...

Swatch unveils its new watch collection including five colorways. The watches are made for deep-sea exploration, built from sustainable materials with futuristic accents. Swatch is preparing for ...

But now, a new innovation called deep-sea reverse osmosis (DSRO) is rewriting the rules. By harnessing the immense natural pressure found at ocean depths, this technology offers a more sustainable ...

Tristan Verhoeff, a volunteer systematic taxonomist at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery ... CSIRO The Carnarvon flapjack is a type of deep-sea dwelling “dumbo” octopus, so nicknamed ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the ... including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and CSIRO's ...

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of the U.S. Navy submarine USS F-1, lost at sea in an accident on December ...

India is preparing to embark on a deep-sea mission of unprecedented scale — one that will send its scientists 6,000 metres beneath the ocean’s surface, a feat accomplished by only a handful of ...

US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at advancing the deep-sea mining industry. This directive mandates the US government to accelerate the review of seabed mining ...