Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

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

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

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

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past ... the nodules are brought up with seawater and sediments through a pipe to a ship, where they’re separated from the waste.

This technology, developed by the China Ship Scientific Research Centre and its State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Manned Vehicles ... applications like seabed mining and salvage operations ...

Developed by the China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) and its affiliated State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Manned Vehicles ... civilian salvage and seabed mining, the dual-use potential ...

Unlike more controversial forms of deep-sea mining that require dredging the ocean floor ... even after years of research in secret labs on German ships. In the decades since, the United States, ...