Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

As part of Russia’s shadow war on Europe, it has turned to sabotage of undersea infrastructure, such as power and ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

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

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

India is slowly adding new undersea cable systems that help connect the country to the rest of the world through the internet ...