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 ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to affect marine ecosystems, raising concerns over its lasting ...

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 ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the US subsidiary of The Metals Company is seeking deep-sea mining permits from the US instead of waiting for the global ...

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 ...

In the race for green technology, the deep ocean is the new battleground. Will mining critical minerals ... Scientists warn that disrupting life in the deep sea could worsen the global carbon ...