Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor. Scientists warn of irreversible damage to deep-sea biodiversity, while ...

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 research highlights significant ecological risks from deep-sea mining, intensifying global debate over whether securing ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, sports a shaggy mop of hair, a rakish beard and a leather bomber jacket with a palm-sized, poly-metallic nodule in its pocket. Aside from setting off metal ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management extended the public comment period for its deep-sea mining proposal near the Mariana ...

A troupe of environmental activists descended on Rotterdam, Netherlands, last month for an evocative demonstration. Dressed as jellyfish, sea anemones, and “fisher folk,” protestors from the advocacy ...

Seems that the federal government always has plans for our islands with schemes than can best summarized as modern ...

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