After President Donald Trump loosened regulations for mining the ocean floor, companies are preparing to take part in what could be a deep-sea minerals boom. NewsNation went behind the scenes with ...

The National Institute of Ocean Technology recently conducted an exploratory deep-sea mining trial in the Andaman Sea. Even as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), is yet to finalize the mining ...

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining operation churned through the seabed. Once the machinery arrived, biodiversity ...

Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple decades ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...

Polymetallic nodules, which contain valuable minerals, are found in various regions of the deep seafloor. Deep sea nodule minerals, which contain metals such as cobalt, nickel and copper, are being ...

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An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and other ...

(NewsNation) — After President Donald Trump loosened regulations for mining the ocean floor, companies are preparing to take part in what could be a deep-sea minerals boom. NewsNation went behind the ...