An abrupt announcement rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected international ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea ...

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday.

She describes Land & Sea as her dream job. Her very first story took her to the isolated community of Harbour Deep, where ...

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.

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

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

It's quiet, but there is still lots of energy in Isle aux Morts. Every year, during a few days in February, there is a deep ...