According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea.

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

According to a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings of the ...

And they want to try and hoover those up, vacuum those up along these huge hoses up to surface vessels, clean out the gunk, deposit that gunk back into the ocean. And that leads, of course ...

Companies and some countries have long pushed to mine the potentially lucrative deep-sea deposits. The order would ... Scientists warn that mining the deep ocean, the planet’s least known ...