Countries are starting to work out how to exploit the deep seas. But we still don’t really know how they work.Is it already ...

The Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta is returning for its third edition with more than 40 films from over 20 countries.

In this issue: diving into deep-sea mining; exploring plans for an REE refinery in France; how mines are transforming water ...

The Trump administration is trying to position direct lithium extraction, deepsea mining and battery materials-focused ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

Donald Trump has fired a starting pistol on a race to extract vast mineral riches from 2.5 miles below the sea, despite ...

Trump’s order, however, has once again brought into focus the debate about the economic benefits of seabed mining. Here’s what we know so far. The idea of deep-sea mining has been around for about 150 ...

President Trump signed an executive order to boost the U.S. deep-sea mining industry for critical minerals. Supporters say deep-sea mining could boost the U.S. economy and reduce reliance on land ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed that the effects of a deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean more than four decades ago are still apparent ...