Countries are starting to work out how to exploit the deep seas. But the truth is, we still don’t really know how they work.

The Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta is returning for its third edition with more than 40 films from over 20 countries.

In this issue: diving into deep-sea mining; exploring plans for an REE refinery in France; how mines are transforming water ...

The Trump administration is trying to position direct lithium extraction, deepsea mining and battery materials-focused ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

Measuring twice the length of a football pitch and bristling with state-of-the-art robotic technology ... been developed on behalf of The Metals Company (TMC), a Canadian deep-sea mining venture, to ...

With all of the progress AI enables in maritime, will it ultimately replace professional ship designers, architects, welders, dockworkers and other specialists?

Ocean with David Attenborough features never-before-seen footage captured using state-of-the-art technology, its makers say ... from industrial overfishing to pollution and deep-sea mining.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open both US and international waters to deep-sea mining, ignoring a global treaty that controls the high seas. Canadian mining group The ...

President Trump signed an executive order to boost the U.S. deep-sea mining industry for critical minerals. Supporters say deep-sea mining could boost the U.S. economy and reduce reliance on land ...

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 ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...