deep sea mining

A new analysis of 250 studies has found that the negative impacts of deep sea mining would be severe and could last…

A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.

In 2009, Kerry McPhail descended Jacques Cousteau-style towards the Axial Volcano, inside the cramped, 30-year-old…

Asteroid mining has gained steam in the popular psyche: who doesn’t love the idea of flying up to one of the giant…

Earlier this year, a very Pokémon-esque octopus was discovered in deep waters off the coast of Hawaii. Researchers…

It doesn’t have towering canopies or jewel-toned corals, but an enormous region of the eastern Pacific that was long…

In March 1968, a Soviet Golf II submarine carrying nuclear ballistic missiles exploded and sank 1,500 nautical miles…

Rocks mined from the seafloor have been confirmed as a viable source for rare earth metals, and thus a tiny piece of…