On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

However, pressure on these still relatively untouched areas of our planet is growing: human activities such as oil extraction, fishing, and potential seabed mining threaten deep-sea ecosystems, while ...

If we know we need to take action on climate change, why aren’t we doing it? That’s the fundamental question posed by a new UN report which offers a theory of why change is so difficult.

Interest in mining the potato-sized “nodules”, which contain metals used ... to the potential for exacerbating climate change – by churning up sediment that stores planet-heating carbon.

Here, in an area of five million square kilometres, manganese nodules are abundantly found on the seabed. Their metal content offers a potential for commercial deep-sea mining. In recent years mineral ...

Intersectionality, which recognises the overlapping and intersecting social identities that can lead to discrimination, is a crucial lens for understanding the disproportionate impacts of climate ...

Japanese corporate directors could be held personally liable if they fail to address climate risks, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.K.-based Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative.

hydrothermal fluid carrying Mn-bearing material to modify the dolomite, in particular, the second member of the Sanya Formation, the dolomite by the influence of the basement of the ...