After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...
Scientists launch a global mission to explore 10,000 deep ocean locations and uncover unseen marine life and ecosystems ...
You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.
Ocean Discovery League (ODL) has launched the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, an ambitious international effort to ...
An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up ...
Deep-sea mining is back on Washington’s radar (or should that be sonar?) under President Donald Trump. Mineral-rich nodules ...
In an effort to bolster supply chains for essential minerals, the United States is looking toward deep-sea mining, and TMC is ...
More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...
Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with a sudden wave of volcanic sediment, leaving them suffocated. Four months ...
Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...