A look at the quest to mine the bottom of the ocean for valuable minerals, the connection between light pollution and ...

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

Greenpeace stages record deep-sea protest against seabed mining Greenpeace used a robot more than 2,300 metres below the ...

A company called Orpheus Ocean wants to go “deep for cheap.” Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is ...

The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and deterrence architecture the United States needs for long-term security. In April ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — Miles under the ocean’s surface, atop the soft sediment that makes up the seafloor, sit thousands of potato-sized spheres of metal. These spheres, called polymetallic nodules or ...