Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow ...

In an essay which was published in The Portugal News on 12 March 2024 I made a synopsis of the potential environmental damage ...

India is investing heavily in the search for critical minerals. But it faces strong opposition from fisherfolk.

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

The International Seabed Authority has raised concerns over The Metals Company’s bid to bypass multilateral oversight by ...

Mining companies say President Trump has highlighted Greenland's supply of critical minerals, but some fear his aggressive ...

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

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

While this discovery could upend our understanding of how life started on Earth, the study also complicates negotiations around deep-sea mining regulations ... wondered if the minerals found ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously known.