OPINION: The lack of proven commercially viable ores, the immaturity of crust mining technology and the potential to harm marine life make this a foolhardy endeavor, Andrew D. Thaler writes.

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Fendouzhe, China's self-developed human occupied vehicle, operates in the seabed at Mariana Trench on Nov 8, 2021. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Relying on China's self-developed human ...

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Did you know that the deep sea is far less explored than the surface of the Moon or Mars? In fact, deep-sea exploration is ...

U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ...

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The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) stands to gain nothing economically from deep sea mining in federal waters.

A leading deep-sea researcher told Marianas residents last week that damage from proposed seabed mining operations could ...

Chinese scientists have identified 7,564 species of prokaryotic microorganisms — 89.4 percent of them previously unreported — during an expedition to the hadal zone, the deepest part of the ocean ...