The leader of one of the most aggressive seabed mining startups spent years invoking global warming to spark interest in ...

As the race for critical minerals heats up, companies and governments have set their sights on the mineral-rich deep sea. But what is the environmental cost of extracting these resources – and is it ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible ...

The talks, in Jamaica, are before the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the only organization that can legally approve ...

Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

Far out on the high seas, on any given day, hundreds of fishing vessels drag huge nets, big enough to snag a 747 jumbo jet, across the ocean bottom, vacuuming up 150-year-old fish, flattening ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 miles underwater ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

Representing Aotearoa at the UN Ocean Conference, I felt embarrassed by our lack of leadership and our inaction.' ...

Sep. 5, 2023 — Right at the bottom of the deep sea, the first very simple forms of life on earth probably emerged a long time ago. Today, the deep sea is known for its bizarre fauna.

Now, mining companies such as Canada’s the Metals Co., want to bring their deep sea harvesters or subsea collectors to the ocean floor and bulldoze across the sea bottom to grab these “rocks ...