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

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

President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

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

has developed mining machinery for scooping polymetallic nodules off the seabed and sending them to a support ship on the surface. Trials of the system in 2022 retrieved more than 3,000 tonnes of ...

An executive order mandates a review of the threats posed by over-reliance on foreign copper, and recommendations for ...

Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and ...