Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and ... such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

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Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019. Hundreds of researchers have called for a pause on deep-sea mining until scientists learn more, which could take years. Some ...

Polymetallic nodules collected by The Metals Company during a deep sea trial in the Pacific Ocean in November 2022.The Metals Company A Vancouver-based company said it is seeking approval under ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On ... The collection of small "polymetallic nodules" from an eight-metre strip of the seabed caused long-term sediment changes and reduced the ...