seafloor

The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, also known as the Doomsday Glacier, has been determined to be "hanging on by its fingernails" due to its melting rate accelerating, with a doubling outflow speed in the last thirty years. Scientists deployed...

  By Elizabeth De Santo, Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth Nyman Mining the ocean floor for submerged minerals is a little-known, experimental industry. But soon it will take place on the deep seabed, which belongs to everyone, according to international law. Seabed mining...