Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

Scientists returned to a 1979 Pacific Ocean mining test site, revealing long-term sediment changes and mixed impacts on ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

A new study involving the University of Liverpool has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological ...

National Oceanography Centre and Trustees of the Natural History Museum, with acknowledgement to the NERC SMARTEX projectA new study ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned on Wednesday that full recovery may be ...