Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

As deep-sea mining accelerates to meet green tech demands, unresolved legal gaps, environmental risks, and ethical concerns ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

It will take another 20-30 years before we may have sufficient data to understand the impact of large-scale deep-sea mining. Moreover, it would not stop unregulated mining for cobalt in Congo.

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

Longer term, there are fears that damage to deep-sea landscapes could have ripple effects through the ocean and potentially affect fisheries. Mining could even affect the “dark oxygen ...

Opponents of DSM, who include scientists, conservationists, oceanographers, nation states, Indigenous peoples and most of ...

Seaweed absorbs rare minerals and elements from seawater as it grows. A new initiative from Blue Evolution, called Orca ...

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

The practice of deep-sea mining involves using machinery to remove ... said the company intends to submit an environmental impact statement to the regulator, noting that it "conclusively points ...