The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

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

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

Letter Published: 06 July 1968 Mercury Content of Deep-sea Manganese Nodules ROBERT C. HARRISS Nature 219, 54–55 (1968) Cite this article ...

It is therefore fitting, or else darkly ironic, that the day also saw the unveiling by China of a new deep-sea testing site – the nation’s first such institution, located about 200 kilometers ...

But in 1981, the Reagan Administration upended what were known as the law of the sea negotiations and withdrew U.S. support for the draft treaty over disputes about the deep sea mining provisions.

In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy.

Ocean conservation and deep sea mining are not in conflict, Nauru's climate change minister has told leaders at the United Nations Ocean Conference. Asterio Appi said Nauru sees the extraction of ...

World leaders have renewed calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining at the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, as the U.S. moves to mine the deep sea in international waters ...

Deep sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov shared a bizarre image of a crab he said looked just like Donald Trump - social media users broke out in hysterics and agreed with this take ...

Green Minerals (GEM), a Norwegian deep-sea mining firm, said Wednesday it bought four bitcoin BTC $107,954.52 ...