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In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...
Credit - Carolyn Cole—Getty Images The Trump Administration is ... a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward ...
Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “The Authority is being influenced by a faction of States allied with environmental NGOs who see the deep-sea mining industry as their ‘last ...
An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and ...
Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean. Pallava Bagla / Corbis via Getty Images Fifty years after his life-changing canoe voyage, Kahoʻohalahala ...
Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.
Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the worlds most secure subsea cables and it ...
The unmanned submarine famously dubbed Boaty McBoatface accidentally uncovered a camera set up to photograph the Loch Ness monster in 1970.