The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget ...

Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea ...

Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our ...

Norway has decided not to move forward with deep-sea mining activities following budget negotiations within the minority ...

Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the ...

The Arctic deep sea harbors significant oil and natural gas reserves along with valuable resources such as rare earths and ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ocean floor off the coast of Chile, where deep marine vents emit ...

Around the world, countries are claiming obscure and difficult-to-reach tracts of the deep-sea floor, far from the surface and further still from land. Why? There is a long history of claiming ...

Life on the deep ocean floor is still a mysterious realm that scientists have only just begun to inventory. They worry that this new gold rush will do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other ...

A discussion of deep-sea mining of critical minerals on the ocean floor, the importance of critical minerals for the clean energy transition, the global and national approaches to regulating the ...