“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Interest in joining the deep-sea mining rush is growing. Indonesia, the largest miner of nickel on land, notified the ISA ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

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

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones. He found an old photograph of the roughly eight-metre- ...

An ISA report on Kiribati’s progress toward deep-sea mining said it had indicated it was looking for ... to the seabed after ...

Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper — crucial for renewable energy technology — from the sea floor. But researchers and ...

Several countries united with campaign groups Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday.

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones. He found an old photograph of the roughly eight-metre- (26-feet-) wide machine used to harvest nodules. His team visited the ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said ...