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In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

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A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight, through metallic ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

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Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...