The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Features Ocean With David Attenborough Isn’t Just A Documentary; It’s a Wake-Up Call In his most urgent film yet, the legendary naturalist reveals how saving even a sliver of our seas could ...

Near California’s Big Sur coast, scientists discovered something unusual: over 5,000 round holes on the ocean floor, covering an area as big as a large city. Each hole is hundreds of feet wide ...

Parts of the sub were found about 1,600 feet from the Titanic, nearly 12,500 feet below the surface in icy, dark waters. It will be difficult to know at what depth the Titan sub became overwhelmed.

Nodules containing valuable metals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

Nature They lifted a rock on the ocean floor—what they found was alive and massive Scientists uncover a hidden underwater cave system teeming with giant creatures unlike anything we’ve seen ...

While most of the ocean bottom is nowhere near that low, life on land lives on the metaphorical penthouse floor. It's not just saltwater that characterizes an ocean, though.

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment hauled up from a record 8km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Two of the main metals available on the ocean floor are nickel and cobalt. Those have been key parts of electric car batteries, said Victor Vescovo, CEO of Caladan Capital. But today?

Parts of the deep Pacific Ocean are covered in metallic lumps known as polymetallic nodules. A study published last year suggested they produce oxygen without sunlight. NOAA Office of Ocean ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative follows last year's ...