Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been done — though some companies have pushed for it ...

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential ... consequences." Underwater mining can create plumes ...

Oceanographic Magazine reported that scientists saw this happening for the first time in Whittard Canyon, deep in the Celtic Sea. Powerful underwater currents are carrying plastic waste into some of ...

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel ... “It would have catastrophic ...