Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, should not be there at all. In a stretch of the Pacific that scientists thought ...

While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...

The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela—carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing ...

Scientists involved in a new deep-sea research effort report that a recent mining test unexpectedly led to the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown species living 4,000 meters (13,123-feet ...