"We know remarkably little about these ecosystems." Experts raise red flags over proposal to mine valuable metals from ocean floor: 'These risks must urgently be assessed' first appeared on The Cool ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A parachute anchor deployed by a Chinese vessel in waters off Pag-asa Island on June 7 has damaged corals worth over P11 ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

As islands in the Pacific Ocean basin, American Sāmoa and Hawaiʻi have strong connections across marine ecosystems and cultures. While Hawaiʻi has banned seabed mining in state waters, which extend ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

By Keith Anthony Fabro They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its-kind study published in Marine Biodiversity in June ...

A decade of oceanographic mapping of the Blake Plateau, which sits approximately 200 miles offshore of Georgia, has recently revealed it as the largest deep-sea coral habitat on earth.

In 1980, lawmakers passed the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA). This obscure law vested NOAA with the authority to issue permits for mining beyond American jurisdiction until an ...

A RECENT ARTICLE in The Economist asserted that President Donald Trump “is right to go after metals in the deep sea” and that the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental ...

President Trump signed an executive order to boost the U.S. deep-sea mining industry for critical minerals. Supporters say deep-sea mining could boost the U.S. economy and reduce reliance on land ...