They observe that the deep sea is one of the last places on the planet not yet directly exploited by humans. Mr Trump is as unlikely to care about all those exotic creatures as he is about ...

Dr. Amon, a marine biologist, is the director of SpeSeas, an ocean conservation group based in Trinidad and Tobago, and a researcher and adviser at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the ...

That means deep-sea ecosystems take an age to recover. Mining might cause the extinction of species that have yet even to be recorded. Though surely that has happened in Sulawesi, too.

By next year, mining companies could start harvesting those materials from the deep sea at an industrial scale for the first time. But the damage that would do to ethereal ecosystems on the ...

For decades, mining companies have been eager to extract rare and valuable metals and minerals from the deep sea — a practice that scientists have long warned could damage marine ecosystems. Now ...