Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

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Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Ghost sharks inhabit some of the darkest and least explored regions of the deep sea. Researchers have captured rare footage ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is "fixed" in ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only do they not know about the battle, they also don't even know much about the ...