Deep-sea mining is promoted as a solution for the energy transition and wealth for developing nations. However, evidence ...

Governments still have a chance to protect the future of the deep ocean as the 30th Session of the International ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Finally, the mining of the seafloor is governed by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ratified by 169 countries. The Secretary General of the International Seabed Authority has ...

What makes The Metals Company (TMC), a little-known company that isn't even making any money, a threat to the ocean, ...

The UN’s International Seabed Authority, established under the Law of the Sea treaty, has granted TMC and other companies exploratory permits for deep-sea mining. Using massive mother ships, the ...

By forging ahead with deep-sea mining, the US is bypassing the UN and creating a diplomatic storm – with a Swiss firm at the ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

"Using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress," says Diva Amon. ... Anything that's mined will be pumped up a pipe to a ship which is waiting on the surface.

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.