Commercial mining of the sea floor could soon get the green light. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a body associated with the United Nations that oversees deep-sea mining in international ...

The deep sea is the oldest and largest biome on Earth. But only in recent decades have we been able to explore these dark and hidden depths, revealing an extraordinary diversity of habitats, from ...

Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...

What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Is mining the deep sea our ticket to green energy?Some of the most precious resources today are battery metals used in producing green energy - nickel, ...

For us land-dwellers, being crushed under several miles of ocean water wouldn’t end very well. But for a deep-sea dwelling ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, being brought up to the surface can ...

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Nodule collection vehicle. A nodule collection vehicle is ready to be launched from a mining ship. Credit: Global Sea Mineral Resources Nearly 150 years ago, scientists and sailors set out aboard the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

Experts expect the global metals and minerals market to have a compound annual growth rate of more than 8% between now and 2026 as the energy transition accelerates. As demand for metals and minerals ...

Editor’s Note (4/25/25): On April 24 President Donald Trump signed an executive order that encourages mining companies to start extracting critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese from ...

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) At the last minute of the recent International Seabed Authority meeting in Jamaica (which ended July 29) ...