Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

We all know how plants generate oxygen from light, water, and CO2 but scientists have now found that metal nodules on the ...

The post Scientists Believe These Weird, Oxygen Creating Rocks May Provide Insights Into How Life Began first on TwistedSifter. Most people learn in high school science class that oxygen generally ...

US defence group says there is ‘large interest’ in its eastern Pacific licences as companies vie for critical minerals ...

In the early 2020s, deep-seafloor mining was advertised as a source of key metals for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. However, battery technology has moved dramatically forward with new ...

Developing nations saw deep sea nodule fields as a source of vast wealth that could be distributed to benefit poor and “geographically-disadvantaged” nations. Advertisement The U.S. balked.

Deep-sea nodules were first discovered more than a century ago. Now, Barron says The Metals Company is on the cusp of hauling them up from the seabed on a commercial scale: "I'm certain it will be ...