As deep-sea mining accelerates to meet green tech demands, unresolved legal gaps, environmental risks, and ethical concerns highlight the urgent need for stronger global oversight and regulation.

Despite covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, the vast majority of the deep sea remains unexplored. In fact, scientists have now revealed that humans have directly observed less than 0.001% of ...

Kahoohalahala is against deep-sea mining, and said it’s a threat to marine life and cultural connections to the ocean. In 2023, he and others gathered off Sand Island to protest a deep-sea ...

NEW DELHI, April 16 (Reuters) - India has extended an auction of deep-sea blocks containing critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other products until May 1, a spokesperson at ...

Kottayam: AICC general secretary (organization) and Alappuzha MP KC Venugopal dared chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan to show the courage to tell the Centre to stop the deep-sea sand mining off ...

Fishermen under the aegis of All India Fishermen Congress (AIFC) Alappuzha district unit staged a protest at sea off Thottappally coast against the Union government’s plan for deep-sea sand ...

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea ... (ISA), including state-of-the-art technologies and strategies for the monitoring of potential future deep-sea mining operations.

Discover WildScience Deep-Sea Anglerfish Discovery Sparks Urgent Investigation Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: March 3, 2025 U.S. scientists are investigating how a deep-sea anglerfish ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the ...