Chinese officials have emphasised the economic importance of deep-sea mining and have been pushing for the swift exploitation of seabed resources ... and fields of manganese nodules on the ...

‘Battery in a rock’ On the abyssal plains of the deep seabed, there are billions of tonnes of polymetallic nodules — metal-dense nodes containing nickel, cobalt, copper and manganes ...

Portugal’s parliament has approved the drafting of a moratorium on deep sea mining in territorial waters to 2050.

Andrew Sweetman—lead author of the study and a deep-sea ecologist at the U.K.’s Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)—and his colleagues have stood by the results. “What if you’re getting ...

Sweetman discovered that a group of metallic rocks appeared to be able to create oxygen - despite being in the dark on the seabed ... “Oxygen is prevalent in deep-sea surface sediments where ...