Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

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

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

Polymetallic nodules collected by The Metals Company during a deep sea trial in the Pacific Ocean in November 2022.The Metals Company A Vancouver-based company said it is seeking approval under ...

Following successful mining tests by U.S. consortia and pioneering environmental impact assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...