This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

Exploratory deep-sea mining began in the 1970s ... and scientists don’t fully understand how these mining plumes will behave once released into the midwater zone. These clouds of debris could ...

Hundreds of researchers have also called for a pause on deep-sea mining until scientists learn ... claims this method would eliminate sediment plumes and reduce noise pollution, though the ...