Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, he ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

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

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

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

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...