An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep international waters for more than 30 years.

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

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

THE Philippine Rise is a natural carbon sink that could contribute to climate-change mitigation, according to a study led by scientists from the World Maritime University, IRD in France, Technical ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday convened France's first ecological planning council in over a year and a half, aiming to remobilise government effor ...

Unlike more controversial forms of deep-sea mining that require dredging the ocean ... they developed a system to pump seawater into onshore grow tanks full of a type of mineral-loving seaweed ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

Engineering and technology used for deep sea mining are still evolving. Some companies are looking to vacuum materials from the seafloor using massive pumps. Others are developing artificial ...

State officials are aware of about 2,700 sites where mining or prospecting took place ... Upon closure, Mount Pleasant Mine dipped below sea level from a ground elevation of roughly 700 feet ...

The Everglades is a unique ecosystem unlike any in the world. We ruined it. Getting it back is expensive, tedious and ...