Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

MP Materials moves up after the Financial Times reported that President Trump is set to issue an executive order allowing the ...

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

Inspired by the humble deep-sea sponge, RMIT University engineers have developed a new material with remarkable compressive strength and stiffness that could improve architectural and product designs.

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

near-freezing conditions found deep in the ocean. This sea cucumber (nicknamed the “sea pig”) was seen gently drifting more than 9,000 feet underwater. Having that much water pressing down ...

When the researchers put the deep-sea sediment through a screen and sifted the smaller rocks and sand, they found a fossilized whorled shell, according to the study. The sample ca ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Japan has developed a biodegradable material that is ...