Challenger Deep sits at the bottom of the western Pacific’s Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the ocean surface.

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...

Predicting the properties of deep-sea sediments offers critical insights into past oceanic conditions, including sediment composition, stratigraphy, and geochemical signals. However, accurate ...

In 2022 a large-scale test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine was undertaken on the abyssal plain of the eastern Pacific Ocean at a depth of 4,280 m, recovering over 3,000 t of polymetallic ...

Scientists aboard a research vessel off the coast of Brazil identified 31 previously unknown species during just two weeks of ...

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...

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