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

The depths of the ocean hold secrets that have fascinated scientists for centuries. Recently, a new discovery has added to this intrigue: evidence of a hidden universe on the ocean floor. The ARCA ...

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.

Scientists believe a lack of predators and warmer ocean waters caused by climate change are helping non-native sea squirts thrive up and down the New England Coast. Sea squirts spend most of their ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been done — though some companies have pushed for it ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been done — though some companies have pushed for it — but ...

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 most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean floor, but landslides, volcanic eruptions, specific weather events, and meteorite impacts can also ...

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 ...