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

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, ...

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

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

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Campaigners say this biodiversity is the true treasure of Earth's largest and least understood ... said the test followed an CIA plot to recover a Russian nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in international waters begins Monday in Jamaica, with hopes high for adoption this year.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal ...

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Deep-sea environments may yield new chemical structures not found in microbes from traditional terrestrial habitats. The threat of antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' is constantly in the news.