Environmentalists warn seabed mining risks destroying habitats and species that are little understood - Copyright AFP/File Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD Environmentalists warn ...

Fifty sensitive seismometers were put on the Atlantic Ocean seabed in a global effort spearheaded headed by UCL researcher Professor Ana Ferreira. She discovered the sounds of explosions from a ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

Submarines are pretty cool bits of kit. They can offer researchers an unrivaled view of the ocean floor, help search out missing wrecks beneath the waves and can even ferry about the rich and famous, ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

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An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

The assertion that more is known about the Moon (or Mars) than the deep ocean lacks scientific basis; a significant portion (23.4%) of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution, exceeding the ...