Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're opposing lax environmental standards, challenging a proposed phosphate mine off the coast of Mexico, and working on ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Finding and disposing of mines lurking on the sea floor is dangerous and difficult ... the seafloor until triggered by a ship's magnetic field, the acoustic signature of its propellers, or the ...

Finding and disposing of mines lurking on the sea floor is dangerous and difficult work ... laying quietly on the seafloor until triggered by a ship's magnetic field, the acoustic signature of its ...