The United States has expanded its underwater territorial rights by more than one million square kilometers, securing ...

China has tested an autonomous deep-sea robot capable of drilling and monitoring inside seabed strata during a South China ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing BEIJING (Reuters) - No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

The study examined the effects of mining discharge on zooplankton and the small shrimp and fish that consume the small organisms. The sediment waste from deep-sea mining could potentially displace or ...

But seafaring nations may be entering a new era. In early April, a Canadian mining outfit, The Metals Company, asked the United States for permission to mine the ocean floor in international waters ...

Tokyo has begun a seabed mining trial near Minamitori Island as it seeks to cut reliance on Chinese rare earth supplies.

A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month. But ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

New research reveals how the speed of ocean currents and the shape of the seabed influence the amount of heat flowing underneath Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to melting. Scientists at the ...