A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight, through metallic ...

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

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

The deposit consists of polymetallic nodules, which are rock-like formations found on the ocean floor. These nodules naturally contain high concentrations of valuable metals, making them an ...

Saskia Birt uncovers the significant environmental stakes of deep-sea mining and its unforeseen role in oceanic oxygen production.

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

The test, carried out in a harbour in November, external, demonstrated one approach to mining for polymetallic nodules, ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

Commercial production of undersea mining could become a reality in less than five years, but at a potentially high cost to ...