President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark ... of a few millimeters per million years. The nodules are rich in metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese – key ingredients for batteries ...

Since 2015, the JPIOceans project "MiningImpact" has been investigating the ecological consequences of deep-sea mining and how the impacts can be mitigated, studying both, manganese nodule areas and ...

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Polymetallic nodules containing certain critical minerals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

More than 200 miles from land, the submerged bank is situated in the Indian Ocean between ... eye the best patches of ocean to search for the precious sulphides and nodules, dubbed “truffles ...