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 Metals Company has announced it will apply for a deep sea mining permit under United States national mining regulations from the 1980s. This ...

"Currently, 32 countries have backed a moratorium or precautionary pause on deep sea mining, including Tuvalu, Palau, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, ...

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

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

Rare-earth elements are crucial for electric batteries and devices, mining of which can lead to the destruction of marine ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court reinstated South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo's powers today, the latest twist in ...