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

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

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

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

The U.S. Congress approved the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act of 1980 as an interim measure to govern seabed mining on the high seas “until an international regime was in place ...

“The freedom to mine the deep seabed, like the freedom of navigation, is a high seas freedom enjoyed by all nations,” Mr. Barron said. The Trump administration’s Commerce ...

“The United States has had the legal framework and regulations for issuing exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits for deep seabed minerals in international waters in place since ...

The Metals Company (TMC) will instead seek permission from the U.S. to start deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean, rather than from the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA).

“Deep coral reefs occur throughout the world and generally reach depths of up to 150 metres. They host different ecological communities from the shallow coral reefs that most people think ...

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 ...