As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

Scientists discovered deep-sea traces of ancient plutonium, evidence of a 10-million-year-old cosmic explosion. This finding ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

most of whom live in soil on land. However, bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics, meaning that new drugs are urgently needed. So, researchers looked to sea-dwelling ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor. In July, the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA) will start ...

And, unlike rare-earth mining on land, deep-sea rare-earth muds don’t contain ... in which rare-earth muds and fragments of drilled soil are pushed upwards. “Since the subsea system will ...