This continental slope plunges into depths sunlight cannot reach, through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (1 ...

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

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

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

The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

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

This is roughly halfway between Mexico and Hawaii and is a vast, flat and deep region of the ocean floor known as an ‘abyssal plain.’ The partners are part of Seabed Mining and Resilience to ...

These waters are then channeled beneath the shelves, where they erode the ice from below. Illustration image Pixabay Although this process is well identified, the pathways of these warm waters from ...

yet we're debating whether we should be going to pick up these rocks that sit on the abyssal plain? Something has got screwed up here," Barron said in an interview with NPR. Many marine scientists ...