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After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

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

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

In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

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 ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

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

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...