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The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months after a mining test. They collected 80 samples of the deep-sea sediment to see ...

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.