Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

A rarely seen deep-sea creature has just been captured on film—and what the camera revealed left researchers speechless.

If they ever come above the deepest parts of the ocean ... The post These Creatures Are the Deep Sea’s Best Kept Secret appeared first on A-Z Animals.

In 2013, a deep-sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources ... with 8-foot-long billowing tentacles appeared about two feet above the seabed. It was attached to the stem of a sea sponge anchored ...

In her deep-sea submersible called Alvin – a three-person ... Species living in the dark zone above the abyss but below the surface are responsible for drawing down upwards of six gigatons ...

Despite covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, the vast majority of the deep sea remains unexplored. In fact, scientists have now revealed that humans have directly observed less than 0.001% of ...

Scientists found a deep-sea creature with “massive eyes” in an underwater canyon and discovered a new species near Australia, a study said. Photo from CSIRO Thousands of feet below the surface ...

In deep-sea nodule mining, vehicles collect nodules from the ocean floor and convey them back to a vessel above. After the critical materials are collected on the vessel, some leftover sediment ...

The deep-sea mining gamble is no financial miracle. Rather, it is a sinking investment that is quite literally costing the earth for minerals we don’t need. The Metals Company’s recent ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...