Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

Deep-sea mining’s rise raises urgent legal, ethical, and environmental questions as demand for critical minerals grows in the ...

Kerala’s ruling and opposition parties unite with fishers to oppose Centre’s deep-sea mining auction, citing threats to ...

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

Seaweed absorbs rare minerals and elements from seawater as it grows. A new initiative from Blue Evolution, called Orca ...

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

Scientists and legal experts warn against commercial deep-sea mining as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order ...

A decade ago, his research group began studying deep-sea mining, seeing a critical need to develop monitoring and modeling capabilities for assessing the scale of impact. Credit: Massachusetts ...

Longer term, there are fears that damage to deep-sea landscapes could have ripple effects through the ocean and potentially affect fisheries. Mining could even affect the “dark oxygen ...