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

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

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns unilateral action would violate international law and undermine multilateral ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean. Pallava Bagla / Corbis via Getty Images Fifty years after his life-changing canoe voyage, Kahoʻohalahala ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The move would enable miners to bypass the ISA and obtain permits from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only ...