In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from ...

A breathtaking aerial photograph capturing powerful ocean waves crashing against a rugged rocky coastline. The contrast ...

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

An ambitious plan to harvest metals-rich nodules from the abyssal seafloor of the Pacific Ocean will be in the spotlight next week as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meets in Kingston, ...

This work was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On July 22, 2024, a team of researchers released a shocking discovery: Deep-sea rocks appear to be producing oxygen in the blackness of the ocean’s ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of shallow, sunlit waters, these microbes may have thrived deep in the ocean, ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

The cells had been buried for 101.5 million years, sealed inside sediment beneath one of the emptiest stretches of ocean on ...

The mysterious golden sphere found at the bottom of the ocean turned out to be part of a strange giant anemone, Relicanthus ...