There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this ...

A new study finds that humans have visually explored just 0.001 per cent of the deep seafloor - leaving vast areas unknown ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures ... mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt ...

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii (THE CONVERSATION) Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another ... their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such ...

By Rebecca Dzombak Max Bearak and Harry Stevens Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and quiet. Strange creatures glitter and glow. Oxygen ... in the deep sea is incredibly ...

Most deep-sea exploration equipment is noisy, large, and uses bright lights while trying to film animals. In the dark, void-like expanse of the deep sea, it could not be more obvious to prey that ...

Longer term, there are fears that damage to deep-sea landscapes could have ripple effects through the ocean and potentially affect fisheries. Mining could even affect the “dark oxygen ...