A deep-sea mining operation that recently took place off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has raised alarm bells for ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

A change of leadership at the International Seabed Authority comes at a time of intense debate about the future for deep-sea ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Fourteen years ago, deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean’s surface, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery: a hydrothermal ...

Leticia Reis de Carvalho will soon take over an international agency overseeing deep-sea mining for electric vehicle battery ...

In May one of the world’s most prominent environmental groups, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), began a lawsuit against the Norwegian government citing the latter’s intent to begin deep sea ...

Deep sea mining involves extracting potato size rocks called nodules - which are packed full of valuable metals - from the ...

Researchers have found oxygen-producing rocks on the deep seafloor, challenging what we know about oxygen production.

They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep, polymetallic nodules ...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, about 12,000 feet below the surface, lies a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

The ISA, a little-known U.N. regulator that oversees deep-sea mining, is responsible for both the exploitation and conservation of an area that covers around 54% of the world's oceans. Carvalho's ...