Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

A brittlestar found on the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone [Natural History Museum/ University of Gothenburg] Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant ...

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Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

President Trump’s recent executive order has intensified interest in deep sea mining, as companies seek to extract metal rich rock nodules from the ocean floor containing materials such as cobalt, ...