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 ...

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, ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not ...

Kiribati is reportedly in discussions with China to explore deep-sea mining opportunities, signaling a potential shift in its ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal regions everywhere, but especially for islands. No example stands out more than the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. But as Kathleen Schuster reports from our ...

And she pointed out "common misconceptions" about the prospect of deep-sea mining, including about its proposed scale, as well as what deep-sea ecosystems look like. "Roughly 0.13 percent of the ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday. At stake ...