Interest in joining the deep-sea mining rush is growing. Indonesia, the largest miner of nickel on land, notified the ISA ...

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

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

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

All the while, the autonomous machine's on-board camera scanned ... for example. But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental ...

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 ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

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

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

All the while, the autonomous machine's on-board camera scanned for creatures that ... Such metals are sought-after for use ...