A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

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

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

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive ... The station will serve multiple functions, as a base for exploring a novel energy source, discovering new sea life ...

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

The Metals Company (TMC) has announced plans to bypass the 'slow-moving' International Seabed Authority (ISA) and apply for ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...