China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands risks leaving the United States behind in critical minerals essential for energy, defense, and tech.

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

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

The International Seabed Authority is meeting in Jamaica to thrash out the rules for deep-sea extraction. Read more at ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

This is a steep challenge for manufacturers building electrification equipment like batteries. Company sends powerful message ...

As the ISA begins two weeks of talks in Jamaica, global stakeholders are divided on how to regulate deep-sea mining while balancing environmental and economic interests ...

As the future of Ukraine's mineral wealth is in the spotlight, Britain 'must wake up' in order to secure its own supplies of these critical elements ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

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.