Rocky lumps were found that are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 metres below sea level completely out of light’s ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns move would be 'violation of international law' and undermine multilateral ...

A Vancouver-based company said it is seeking approval under United States law to mine several deposits in the Pacific Ocean — a move that could set up a collision with a United Nations body that ...

The Congress leader said opening up offshore mining blocks to private players without any rigorous assessment of its impact ...

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The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

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

Discover TMC the Metals Company’s strategic pivot to a U.S.-based regulatory pathway under DSHMRA, aimed at expediting production.