Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...
An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...
A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...
Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.
This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...
The Metals Company, a Canadian startup, says it will seek approval this year to launch the world's first deep-sea mine in the eastern Pacific Ocean, by working with one of the few countries that ...
The Metals Company, a startup based in Vancouver, British Columbia, claims it's ready to launch the world's first deep-sea mine in the eastern Pacific Ocean. That poses a challenge for ISA ...