Scientists and policymakers are now faced with a difficult question: should the pursuit of greener energy come at the cost of ...

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

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists returned to a 1979 Pacific Ocean mining test site, revealing long-term sediment changes and mixed impacts on ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

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 ...