Several countries united with campaign groups on Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises the stakes in critical mineral competition, with the United States at risk of falling behind. In February, the Cook Islands announced a key ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

As the ISA begins two weeks of talks in Jamaica, global stakeholders are divided on how to regulate deep-sea mining while balancing environmental and economic interests ...

Such metals are sought-after for use in renewable energy devices and batteries, for example. But deep-sea mining is a ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? This ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

It is the key ingredient of bronze, the alloy that helped create some of the world’s greatest civilizations and took humanity ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

Researchers said that potato-sized nodules could be producing enough electrical current to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as electrolysis.