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

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Until the 1970s, a very common method to dispose of unneeded munitions was to simply tip them off the side of a ship. This means that everything from grenades to chemical weapons have been ...

One of the nastiest threats in naval warfare are mines. Crude, cheap and packed with explosives, bottom mines lurk on the ...