Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline. When you purchase through links on ...

2023 has been...weird. Join Mashable as we look back at everything that's delighted, amazed, or just confused us in 2023. Below 1,000 meters, the ocean is eternally dark. Sunlight can't penetrate ...

The kind of deep-sea mining that we've examined this week is only legally permitted inside a country's territorial waters. The only country on earth to allow it so far is Papua New Guinea.

The world’s oceans are on the brink of a major disaster if controversial plans to start deep sea mining in international waters go ahead as early as next year, an expert has warned. Dr. Sandor Mulsow, ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

Deep Sea Mining Finance (DSMF), an obscure company registered in the British Virgin Islands, recently conducted an exploratory mining operation off the coast of New Ireland province in Papua New ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.

Editor’s Note (4/25/25): On April 24 President Donald Trump signed an executive order that encourages mining companies to start extracting critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese from ...