At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

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

Findings on deep-sea mining impacts in the CCZ highlight slow ecological recovery, underscoring the need for robust strategies to protect marine biodiversity.

The push for clean energy is driving interest in deep-sea mining, a controversial method of extracting critical metals from the ocean floor. These polymetallic nodules contain key ingredients for ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor.

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

Updated March 28, 2025 at 00:37 AM ET In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows. A study published in the journal Nature found that the site of a ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned on Wednesday that full recovery may ...