Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

A DW investigation traces the hidden financial web behind deep-sea mining — an industry scientists say remains poorly understood, yet capable of causing irreversible harm to oceans worldwide.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. They found that the number of ...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is pressing ahead on Wednesday with an effort to ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Scientists involved in a new deep-sea research effort report that a recent mining test unexpectedly led to the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown species living 4,000 meters (13,123-feet ...

Industrial mining of the seabed could reduce the abundance and diversity of tiny animals living in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, a new study found. The study, published Friday in the journal Nature ...

Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...