After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

But some in the current Trump administration have called for mining a new source: the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining remains controversial and has yet to be approved in either federal waters or ...

the United Nations International Seabed Authority has decided that it will start taking permit applications in July from companies that want to mine the ocean's floor. The undersea mining will be ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

Prospecting corporations have long coveted the precious metals embedded in the ocean floor that could be used for electronics. This includes nickel, copper, cobalt, manganese, zinc, gold and other ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

With a seabed rich in cobalt, nickel and copper, Kiribati is seeking new partners after a previous deal with a Canadian ...

Warnings about the impact of mining gained strength with the discovery last year that oxygen was being released on the ocean ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

the ocean floor and even space. WSJ’s George Downs explores the new frontiers of EV battery mining.

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon ... The work comes as ...