A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.
Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape ...
It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...
Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse ...
A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the ...
As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...
Among the investors are some of the world's largest financial institutions-- including Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas-- according to DW's analysis of company ...