The significance of deep-sea virology and its impact on global climate and biogeochemical structures is not unknown, though ...

Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. Oslo had planned to ...

Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals. Critics fear harm to fragile marine ecosystems. The WWF ...

As technologies advance, humanity is uncovering oceanic mysteries, from ancient structures to unexplained anomalies and ...

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusc, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists ...

• Activists urge Norway to turn this pause into permanent legal protections for Arctic waters and join the global movement for a moratorium on deep-sea mining.

In 2016 and 2017, researchers dropped cow bones into the deep sea off the coast of Brazil at depths of about 1,800, 4,900 and ...

The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget ...

Norway has decided not to move forward with deep-sea mining activities following budget negotiations within the minority ...

Norway agreed on Sunday to stop the first round of licensing for Arctic deep-sea mining following pressure from the Socialist ...

Norwegian chapter will have its day in court Thursday, after it sued Norway for opening up its seabed to mining before ...

"I had no idea there would be so much opposition to deep-sea ... marine ecosystems. And that it will "make sure to stay away from the active hydrothermal vents where most of the underwater life ...