A company called Orpheus Ocean wants to go “deep for cheap.” Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Common two-banded seabream fish swim in the protected area of France's Porquerolles National Park ahead of the U.N. Ocean ...

Corporate pressure and US-China competition are stalling global efforts to set environmental safeguards for seabed mining We are on the threshold of a new "gold rush" for the critical minerals that ...

Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licenses to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans. The ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows. A study published in the journal Nature found that the site of a ...

While the permits could cover territory far beyond the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, the president is also setting in motion potential seabed mining within U.S. coastal waters. Trump’s directive comes ...

No green light for mining the deep sea given at global deep seabed mining meeting, and ocean champion countries save the day ensuring the protection of the marine environment will be on the agenda. A ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent ...