When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, he ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

This comes alongside plans for the Great Nicobar Development Project, which has faced criticism for its potential impact on ...