Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises the stakes in critical mineral competition, with the United States at risk of falling behind. In February, the Cook Islands announced a key ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

The researchers sent a manned submarine into deep waters. Scientists issue dire warning after disturbing discovery made at the bottom of the ocean: 'Not a single inch of it is clean' first appeared on ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.