A deep-sea mining operation that recently took place off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has raised alarm bells for ...

The ISA, a little-known U.N. regulator that oversees deep-sea mining, is responsible for both the exploitation and ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Enlarge / Following the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption, a nearby hydrothermal vent was seen coated with a white mat of bacteria and surrounded by a thick layer of ash. The vent usually supports animal ...

Surangel S. Whipps Jr., president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, wants more countries to join him in calling for ...

Leticia Reis de Carvalho will soon take over an international agency overseeing deep-sea mining for electric vehicle battery ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

Deep sea mining involves extracting potato size rocks called nodules - which are packed full of valuable metals - from the ...

In May one of the world’s most prominent environmental groups, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), began a lawsuit against the Norwegian government citing the latter’s intent to begin deep sea ...

The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative has warned of significant reputational, regulatory, and operational risks associated with plans to mine the deep seabed. We need to think ...

The President of the ISA Council has committed to providing a revised version of the consolidated text in November 2024, with ...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, about 12,000 feet below the surface, lies a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...