As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

The Metals Company is being accused by environmental groups of changing its corporate branding from fueling the green ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?Some ...

Pressure on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to finalize and adopt regulations for deep-sea mining is increasing.

Close to 170 member states and the European Union gathered in Jamaica on 17 March 2025, for a two-week-long negotiation on ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

Unlike countries like China, India is not yet prepared to extract minerals from the ocean's depths due to a lack of seabed ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway over when and whether to allow mining of ...