The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

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

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

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

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed that the effects of a deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean more than four decades ago are still apparent ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...