And sometime after 2025, what we’re mining on land will be insufficient. We’ll have to look at the seafloor.” For the present time, however, America’s approach to undersea mining looks to ...

Learn about the Borealis Mud Volcano on the Arctic seafloor and its role in maintaining biodiversity, which is driven by ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

A Canadian mining startup says metal-rich rocks on the seafloor can help power the switch away from fossil fuels. Critics say mining them could cause serious ecological destruction, but no one ...

Sweetman first made the unexpected observation that “dark” oxygen was being produced on the seafloor while assessing marine biodiversity in an area that’s earmarked for mining potato-size ...

If oxygen is produced at these extreme depths, in total darkness, that calls into question what life could survive and thrive on the seafloor, and what impact mining activities could have on that ...

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

(CN) — The World Wildlife Fund is suing Norway in an attempt to halt seafloor mining in the Nordic country’s territory, the international conservation organization announced Thursday. The lawsuit ...

The world's first seafloor massive sulfide mining project contract has been signed between Nautilus Minerals Inc, a mining company with headquarters in Canada and Tongling Nonferrous metals group ...

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth's oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon.