The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Several Underwater Volcanoes Found on the Seafloor About 60 Kilometers from Rarotonga Island.

A new desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy ... There is no deep-sea mining that doesnʻt disturb the seafloor, or harm its inhabitants.

The Pacific Ocean is a highly seismically active area and since the ... providing the potential to develop a worldwide monitoring network of seafloor sensors using the existing subsea infrastructure.

A Vancouver-based startup, The Metals Company, says it's ready to launch the world's first deep-sea mine in the eastern ...

The Pacific Ocean is a highly seismically active area ... changing potential to develop a worldwide monitoring network of seafloor sensors using the existing subsea infrastructure.

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered ... vehicles to take pictures and collect samples from the seafloor. A snapshot of any given patch of CCZ seafloor might show ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

Researchers uncover a possible active underwater volcano chain near the Cook Islands, hinting at fresh geological activity.