There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...

Environmental questions plague deep-sea mining ambitions, but US bodies say the sector needs an adaptive management approach.

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and ...

Deep-sea mining is an industry with few publicly traded players. This week, American Ocean Minerals announced it is merging with Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ: OMEX) in a reverse takeover that ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of researchers captured high-definition pictures of a sunken World War I-era U.S. Navy submarine off the coast of San Diego, over a century after it was lost at sea.

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a first ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

A research expedition near one of the most remote island chains on Earth has captured what scientists say is the first ...