The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...

On the regulatory front, NOAA announced revisions to the regulations for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit applications under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA), a ...

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project. Now It May Host a Hyperscale Data Center. A ...

Greenpeace launches legal challenge against UK government's decision to approve the transfer of two deep-sea exploration licences ...

Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from ...

China has successfully tested its first domestically developed robot capable of conducting three-dimensional drilling ...