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

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

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

In 2018, Portugal hosted a conference to discuss "the challenges of current and future deep sea mining.  Four years later, ...

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A group of leading marine scientists, led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander (GEOMAR), has published a Future Science Brief on ...

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 ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US President Donald Trump.

While this discovery could upend our understanding of how life started on Earth, the study also complicates negotiations around deep-sea mining regulations as it showcases how little we really ...