This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The head of the deep sea mining frontrunner has written a scathing letter addressing the International Seabed Authority after ...