The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Olivier Rouxel, a geochemistry researcher at Ifremer, the French national institute for ocean science and technology, told ...

as well as what deep-sea ecosystems look like. "Roughly 0.13 percent of the world's seabed — about 478,000 kilometres squared — could eventually be mined, a relatively small fraction compared to the ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...