This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

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, ...

Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase the negative impact on environmental indicators by up to 13 per cent, a change categorized as having 'great' significance, relative to the 'without' ...

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 (DSM) not only poses significant environmental ... to recover nearly all of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries for recycling," said Dr. Sumaila.

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company ... underwater, having tested a vehicle that gathers the raw materials from the ocean floor and transports them to a ship on the water's ...

(Reuters) - Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on ... nodules filled with the building blocks for electric vehicles and electronics. The request from privately held Impossible Metals ...

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 ...