President Trump signs executive order to expedite mining on the ocean floor, aiming to increase energy and mineral supply chains while addressing environmental concerns.

Recently, a new discovery has added to this intrigue: evidence of a hidden universe on the ocean floor. The ARCA neutrino sensor array, located in the Mediterranean Sea, has detected a highly ...

By Max BearakRebecca Dzombak and Harry Stevens President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that is opposed by nearly ...

The depths of the ocean are strewn with curious nodules that are rich in manganese, copper, cobalt and nickel. Special devices may make it possible to mine the bottom for these valuable substances ...

It can pretend to be a lionfish, with its poisonous spines standing tall, or take on the appearance of a flatfish, lying flat on the ocean floor to avoid detection. Perhaps most astonishing of all ...

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, ...

But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.