A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Tokyo set to make world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare-earth-rich mud from a depth of around 6,000m ...

The drilling vessel is backed by Japanese government funding, and will spend a month collecting rare earth sludge along a ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

Japan will begin deep-sea rare earth exploration in the South Pacific as it moves to diversify supply chains amid tighter ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Lawmakers voted near-unanimously Friday to urge the federal government to halt deep-sea mining plans, pointing to potential ...

Sen. Therese Terlaje and a group of nine Republicans and Democrats in the Guam Legislature want the federal government to halt plans for the mining of roughly 35.5 million acres ...

Advocates from across the Pacific will gather online Tuesday morning to share strategies for opposing federal deep-sea mining ...