Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

As three out of the first five sectors selected by the Centre for the deep-sea mining off Kerala coast are located in Kollam Parappu (Quilon bank), one of the busiest fishing hubs in the south ...

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor. In July, the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA) will start ...

Research tells us deep sea species and habitats are highly sensitive to disturbance and slow to recover. There is widespread concern in the scientific community that a proposed new extractive industry ...

So far, only limited deep-sea mining has occurred to test equipment. The Metals Company became the first company to engage in deep-sea mining to test technologies such as an integrated collector ...

Shares of The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) surged in January amid growing anticipation of support for deep-sea mining under the Trump administration. TMC, in partnership with the Republic of Nauru ...

Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation ...

And few places are as outlandish as the ocean deep. But deep-sea mining appears poised to get a boost from the incoming Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal. A string of ...

And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures. Science Photo Library/NOAA The scientists worked out that ...