This seabed deployment is a first for Northern Ireland. The project is supported by Ulster Wildlife members, Belfast Harbour ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. They found that the number of ...

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have been revealed. Scientists have analysed samples from the seafloor in the ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed -- and therefore our climate, new research shows. Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed -- and therefore ...

An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles. Kiribati, a tiny island ...

Australia has the third largest ocean territory on the planet, measuring 13.8 million square kilometers, including the Australian Antarctic Territory. Australia's diverse oceans, seas and waterways ...