A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

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

The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea ...

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

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

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

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

The Metals Company said it would apply for permits under a 1980 U.S. law, after President Trump signed an executive order calling for an increase in U.S. mineral production.