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

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

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

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...