Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70- ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar ...

Atlas charts location, concentration and distribution patterns of dozens of elements in seabed sediments China has issued its ...

Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, an international body tasked with regulating the emerging industry ended a key global meeting this week without a new ...

Sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean are enormous deposits of critical metals. Unlocking them could help free the United States and its allies from dependence on Chinese-controlled supply chains ...

Move over, bottom trawling! There is a new bad boy on the ocean floor, and it makes roller gear look like dragging the bottom with a feather.

In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view ...

Driven by three presidential executive orders signed in 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to loosen its rules governing seabed mining, which could commence in a matter of years in ...

American Ocean Minerals Corp, a deep-sea exploration company led by former Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, is combining with ...

The share price of TMC The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC) jumped on news released on March 9, 2026. The news was important to the company's goal of building a deep-seabed mining business, but it isn't ...

The study examined the effects of mining discharge on zooplankton and the small shrimp and fish that consume the small organisms. The sediment waste from deep-sea mining could potentially displace or ...