President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under ... size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and ...

Sea pigs and sea spiders were found in the Antarctic Ocean’s depths A new butterfly-like animal was seen spawning live on camera Discoveries were made during the ANZIC deep-sea expedition ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ... nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between ...

The ocean floor holds more of the rare earth metals ... Scientists warn that disrupting life in the deep sea could worsen the global carbon cycle, with consequences we can’t yet predict.

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor.

The ocean remains one of the most intriguing and mysterious frontiers on our planet. Despite advances in technology and exploration, a large portion of the ocean floor remains uncharted, hiding ...