By Kristine Sabillo The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

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

Vancouver, Canada-based seabed mining company The Metals Company (TMC) has announced that it is collaborating with the Trump ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for decades. Mining firms claim the deep seabed could provide a major new source of minerals independent of China, which controls the supply of many ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for decades. Mining firms claim the deep seabed could provide a major new source of minerals independent of China, which controls the supply of many ...

"That would have potentially disastrous consequences for ocean health." Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for decades. Mining firms claim the deep seabed could provide a major new source of ...