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

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

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

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

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

The fishermen have already launched several protests against the proposed plan to open up the sea to private mining companies ...

To overcome this, Hu’s team crafted a specialized diamond-coated grinding wheel. Spinning at 1,600 revolutions per minute, ...

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

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 ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands risks leaving the United States behind in critical minerals essential for energy, defense, and tech.

The Congress-led UDF announced protests against the Union and state governments over deep-sea mining and other issues. A ...

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