As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor.

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The Bureau of Land Management has approved a controversial lithium mining exploration project in Malheur County.

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A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

The study examined the effects of mining discharge on zooplankton and the small shrimp and fish that consume the small organisms. The sediment waste from deep-sea mining could potentially displace or ...