A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more.

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

Scattered on the seafloor four kilometres (2.5 miles) beneath the surface, polymetallic nodules contain manganese, nickel and cobalt, metals used in electric car batteries and other low-carbon ...

Japan depended mostly on imported rare-earth minerals for decades. But something surprising has recently happened.

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

Unlike countries like China, India is not yet prepared to extract minerals from the ocean's depths due to a lack of seabed ...