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

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

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

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

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

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...