Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

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

The International Seabed Authority isn’t close to setting rules on harvesting minerals more than a decade after talks on how ...

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

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

A Vancouver-based mining company is looking to sidestep the international agency charged with regulating mining in ...

The proposed mining process is invasive. Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as they scoop up nodules and stir up sediments. This removes habitats used by marine organisms and ...

Delegations from 36 countries are attending a council meeting of the U.N.'s International Seabed Authority in Kingston, Jamaica this week to decide whether mining companies should be allowed to ...