The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction ...

(Corrects paragraph 3 to reflect firms are seeking to extract minerals rather than are currently extracting) By Emma Farge ...

Regional geopolitical tensions and a legal stalemate are constraining both countries’ cobalt ambitions in the Afanasy Nikitin ...

American Ocean Minerals Corporation (AOMC) has wrapped up one of its largest deep-sea environmental ...

Learn how the latest IUCN Red List update links deep-sea mining, diamond projects, and invasive predators to extinction risks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. As with other polarized issues such as nuclear energy, there has ...

Norway's recent approval of deep-sea mining sets a precedent for other nations, as they seek to access critical minerals necessary for renewable energy technologies. While environmentalists and ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

The International Union for Conservation ‌of Nature (IUCN) renewed its call for a moratorium on such operations before UN-led ...

The deep sea holds vast mineral wealth. However, most valuable elements lie in international waters, outside any one ...