Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela—carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing ...

A brittlestar found on the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone [Natural History Museum/ University of Gothenburg] Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant ...

The Trump administration is floating the idea of mining the seafloor off Alaska’s coast ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

The Trump administration, with the support of many congressional Republicans, is looking to boost deep-sea mining as a way to ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

After sitting on the sidelines for nearly 30 years, the United States is preparing to dive into deep-sea mining. While the U.S. has long deferred to laws established by the U.N. Convention on the Law ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

Recently, a European research team, through the analysis of data collected from an industrial trial, discovered that deep-sea mining leads to a sharp ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to gauge support for what would be the first Alaska Outer Continental Shelf ...