China has created a deep-sea cable-cutting device capable of severing the world's most fortified underwater communication and ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Scientists have scooped up sediment in box cores dropped from ships and deployed ... said the test followed an CIA plot to ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

Designed for integration with China’s advanced manned and unmanned submersibles such as the Fendouzhe and Haidou series, he ...

The impact of hurricanes when they travel over land, or when they affect ships or oil-drilling platforms, are quite well ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company's loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

The new device could theoretically grant China the ability to quietly cripple global communications and energy networks, ...

So even if mining machinery created zero sediment disturbance, pollution and noise, removing nodules would still impact the ecosystem. Dr Childs also mentions the importance of the deep sea to ...

Plus, each claw kicks up a relatively small puff of sediment as it plucks its target off the seafloor. Impossible Metals aims to further reduce this disturbance. Such a system is not likely to ...