Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

The Metals Company seeks US approval to begin deep-sea mining in international waters, bypassing the International Seabed ...

The Metals Company seeks US approval to start deep-sea mining, bypassing the International Seabed Authority. The move has ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

Following successful mining tests by U.S. consortia and pioneering environmental impact assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino described the submission by the Philippine government of the “Talampas ng Pilipinas” ...