The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

The world's oceans, both international waters and those under national jurisdiction, are rich in minerals and metals.

The crucial conference in France comes after Trump ordered the US to pursue deep-sea mining with potentially damaging ...

The seabed is legally designated as the“common heritage of mankind,” but in practice, it has become a hotly contested ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

a U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian deep-sea mining corporation called The Metals Company submitted its first applications to explore and exploit polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup ... where it uses robotic claws to grab polymetallic nodules rich in minerals. Impossible Metals claims that its UAV is less disruptive to the fragile ...

The Deep Sea Mining Group of the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has successfully conducted exploratory mining trials for polymetallic nodules in the Andaman Sea, utilizing a ...

French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes ...