As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises the stakes in critical mineral competition, with the United States at risk of falling behind. In February, the Cook Islands announced a key ...

"Anyone that doesn't want to do deep-sea mining is implicitly saying we need to do more land-based mining." Jovana Jovanova ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

This robot was hunting for rocks ... for use in renewable energy devices and batteries, for example. But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially ...