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

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

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, he ...

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

The target is also easily within reach of a ship’s anchor. The Baltic Sea is only 52 meters deep on average, while the Gulf ...

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

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

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

The sighting “highlights the importance of modern, cost-effective technologies to survey the deep sea and locate these lost ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

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