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

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

TMC the metals company formally initiated a process with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to apply for ...

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

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

Scientists returned to a 1979 Pacific Ocean mining test site, revealing long-term sediment changes and mixed impacts on ...

The study found that a deep-sea mining test in 1979 in the North Pacific still showed lower levels of biodiversity than ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

“The Paris of the Midwest,” some call it. Once a year, over the first weekend in March, Columbia, Missouri becomes the most ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...