Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only ...

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Despite covering most of Earth's surface and providing crucial resources, the deep ocean remains largely unseen and ...

The great deep sea mining debate has both pros and cons that need to be addressed before the procedure can become viable.