Marine researchers have found 488 distinct species thriving in a methane-rich, deep-sea environment, according to a summary ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday vowed to defend science from attacks by "major powers" as he tried to rally global ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

In 1990, the Clean Air Act was updated by Congress to eliminate acid rain by reducing power plant pollution. Unfortunately, ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

The oldest mining test site is a strip of CCZ seabed, plowed in 1979. Daniel Jones, a NOC researcher who trawled the archives to pinpoint the location, said the test followed an CIA plot to recover a ...

Additionally, noise pollution from machinery can interfere ... Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood.