The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

A group of leading marine scientists, led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander (GEOMAR), has published a Future Science Brief on ...

Where does the deep sea begin? Definitions vary across science and legal frameworks. For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the ...

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

Incidents of accidental and suspect breaches of submarine cables in northern Europe and around Taiwan concern security ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

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

Using creative thinking and Lego technology, an Agawam robotics team engaged in research, problem-solving, coding and ...

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

Rocky lumps were found that are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 metres below sea level completely out of light’s ...

These rocks, of which there are potentially trillions, are filled with rich deposits of nickel, manganese ... by polymetallic ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...