In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

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

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire ...

But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially destructive process. Special correspondent Willem Marx joined William Brangham to discuss how the Trump administration is ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Using creative thinking and Lego technology, an Agawam robotics team engaged in research, problem-solving, coding and engineering to design and build a small robot to explore the layers of the ocean.

Deep-sea mining doesn’t have international rules governing how minerals found on the ocean floor could be harvested despite more than a decade of debate, and that is pushing some companies to ...

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially destructive process. Special correspondent Willem Marx joined William Brangham to discuss how the Trump administration is ...

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...