Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots ...
The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On ... a complex ecosystem hosting hundreds of species. The collection of small "polymetallic nodules" from an eight-metre strip of the seabed ...
Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.
The crawler must be capable of operating "in different sediment and seabed types (e.g., rocky ... on the seabed in dynamic ...