With deep-sea mining already under scrutiny, Guam lawmakers are advancing a resolution aimed at reinforcing the island’s opposition.  Supporters say this moment is about drawing a clear line as ...

Any renewable energy source a country can support will become a hub for investment. Countries are researching not only solar ...

Legal experts say deep-sea mining cannot start until the ISA agrees how profits from the global seabed would be shared.

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.

Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres ...

Mining the ocean floor for submerged minerals is a little-known, experimental industry. But soon it will take place on the deep seabed, which belongs to everyone, according to international law.

The US just inched closer to endorsing a new kind of mining frontier: scraping metals from the deep ocean floor in international waters. The Trump administration has begun formally reviewing the first ...

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining companies to ...

New report, “In Too Deep: What We Know, And Don’t Know, About Deep Seabed Mining,” outlines likely impacts of deep seabed mining on ecosystems and biodiversity, and risks of allowing industry to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Citizens of countries that sponsor deep-sea mining firms have written to several governments and the International Seabed Authority expressing ...

A new publication on the impacts of deep-seabed mining by 13 prominent deep-sea biologists, led by University of Hawai'i at M?noa oceanography professor Craig Smith, seeks to dispel scientific ...

Scott Shackelford is a principal investigator on grants from the Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Science Foundation, and the Microsoft Corporation supporting both the ...