The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

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

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 ...

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...

Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...