Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

MANILA - The Philippine government’s submission of the “Talampas ng Pilipinas” chart to the International Seabed Authority ...

Bates/Grist) The United Nations body in charge of overseeing mineral extraction from the international seafloor, known as the ...

This was how Sen. Tolentino described the submission by the PH government of the ‘Talampas ng Pilipinas’ chart to ISA.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council, despite challenges, proceeded with its agenda and elected H.E. Ambassador Duncan Muhumuza Laki (Uganda) as President of the Council for its thirtieth ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...