"The first country to put this into law." Government shuts down controversial deep sea industry with bold ban: 'We hope this ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

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

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Donald Trump’s administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of metal found on the Pacific Ocean seabed, in an effort to counter China’s dominance of battery minerals and ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...

Four kilometres below the Southern Ocean surface is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host ...