Nowadays, there is a growing global demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals such as nickel, manganese and lithium due to their importance in the production of components that support ...

Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This sea spider is related to land spiders but does not belong to that group. They can grow to the size of a palm in the deep sea ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists involved in a new deep-sea research effort report that a recent mining test unexpectedly led to the discovery of large ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to ...

A patch of seafloor targeted for future mining has given us a blunt reminder that we don’t really know what’s going on down ...

Learn how researchers discovered a new superfamily living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.