Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Deep-sea mining sediment plumes travel farther than expected, monitoring study finds. Story by Ilka Thomsen • 1mo. O n the ...

Related Work. Past work on deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining included oceanographic observations, sediment analyses, and ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the ...

Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 09 / 220921141456.htm ...

A new opinion piece suggests that deep-sea mining would generate damaging sediment plumes and noise pollution that would negatively affect the midwater column, a critical ocean ecosystem that ...

The deep sea also holds clues about the continents. In this case, we can use deep sea sediments to better understand how Earth surface systems respond to climatic fluctuations.

These sediment plumes threaten to smother life on the ocean floor and choke midwater ecosystems, sending ripples throughout marine ecosystems affecting everything from deep-sea filter-feeders to ...

Hagfish also love to burrow into the deep-sea sediment, but scientists have been unable to observe precisely how they do so because the murky sediment obscures the view.

The ocean floor is filled with undiscovered life-forms that help to regulate Earth's climate, a new global study of DNA in deep-ocean sediments finds.