China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific ...

Chinese scientists and engineers have pushed far beyond a string of US military bases known as the second island chain, ...

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Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

New industry-backed research shows how waste from deep-sea mining could have far-reaching effects on fish and their food.

Along the industry-laden Gulf Coast, a new type of extractive industry is taking shape. Two deep-sea mining companies recently applied for US permits to mine minerals from the seabed, both in US ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...