Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, said that the company believes they have enough knowledge to manage environmental ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

The International Seabed Authority has raised concerns over The Metals Company’s bid to bypass multilateral oversight by ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a phenomenon they're calling "dark oxygen" — oxygen produced without any sunlight — 4,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean in the ...

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

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining ... Centre analyzed the Clarion Clipperton Zone, a mineral-rich area of the ocean floor, and found that a test mining experiment from ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer ... years using contracts awarded by the ISA to explore parts of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a section of the Pacific Ocean rich with these nodules.