The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

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

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