Seafloor animals decreased by 37% in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, a landmark report has found. Scientists from the ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Seafloor animals decreased by 37% in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, a landmark report has found. Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Gothenburg and National ...

Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Gothenburg and National Oceanography Centre spent more than five years studying how biodiversity could be affected by deep-sea mining.

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline ...

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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge.

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. The number of animals found in ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...