An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters ...

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

The White House considers an executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining permits, bypassing the UN review. This effort aims ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the Trump administration after years of ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

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

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

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

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

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