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

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

Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots ...

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 ...

Other mining operations target phosphates used as fertilizer in industrial agriculture. So far companies haven't been willing to heavily invest in such a difficult and costly undertaking, but the ...

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

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic ...