The ISA’s second option to make deep-sea mining benefit all of humanity involves channeling the leftover proceeds into a fund ...

Image via Getty Images An expert is ringing the alarm bells over a proposed start to deep sea mining in international waters, ...

The world’s oceans are on the brink of a major disaster if controversial plans to start deep sea mining in international waters go ahead as early as next year, an expert has warned. Dr.

One of the world's most active volcanoes spewed lava into the air for a second straight day on Tuesday. The eruption of ...

Dark oxygen, found 13,100 feet deep, defies predictions, enabling life in oxygen-depleted zones. Its discovery reshapes ...

In the Pacific, the Cook Islands hopes the practice could help bolster its economy, but it's not without opposition.

Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for the minerals like ...

Rich lodes of valuable metals lie on the seafloor. Will a global rush to mine them be allowed to go ahead – and will doing so ...

The international community seems no closer to an agreement on a code for deep-sea mining in international waters and the ...

But deep seabed mining proponents use the language of ... countries to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) would range from US$42,000 to US$7.35 million.

"It feels like a real crunch point," Louisa Casson of Greenpeace International told AFP. "We are seeing surging momentum for a moratorium (on deep-sea mining). But at the same time, the industry is ...

Norway halts deep-sea mining plans as political pressure threatens annual budget. Japan's $26 billion seabed discovery sparks debates, with studies showing mining’s severe impacts on marine ...