Large swathes of the deep-sea floor contain nodules of the critical minerals cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel. "This is an exciting opportunity for the U.S.," Gerard Baron, CEO of The Metals ...

Oxygen seeps ... harm these deep-sea ecosystems before their value and workings are fully understood. Seafloor mining could target three kinds of metal-rich deposits: nodules, crusts and mounds.

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years have shown how the removal of nodules can put seafloor creatures at risk by disrupting their habitats. However, the process can also ...

Researchers say oxygen ... from under-sea nodules because they would require new technology and are located far from processing plants. The nodules can also be up to 4,000 metres deep, while ...

They include China, which has invested billions in deep-sea research, and Japan, which has collected nodules in trials around ... It is cold, short of oxygen, has no light and contends with ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed ... metric tons of nodules, or deposits ...

In waters where oxygen levels are low ... "endangered" due to threats to two of its three habitat locations from deep sea mining. Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former Live ...

Here's what to know about the newly-discovered deep sea creature. The newly discovered ... may have lived in more active lifestyle in low-oxygen environments. In fact, the gills resemble the ...

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have visually ...