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

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

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

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 ...

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

A new study involving the University of Liverpool has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological ...

Deep-sea mining opponents believe Carvalho’s ... contracts — the most of any nation — intends to test mining machine prototypes in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone as soon as this year.

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones. He found an old photograph of the roughly eight-metre- ...

An ISA report on Kiribati’s progress toward deep-sea mining said it had indicated it was looking for ... to the seabed after ...

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

A new study has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological recovery four decades after a test mining experiment that removed polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean. The ...