The International Seabed Authority is holding an election for secretary general on Friday. The vote is a microcosm of a broader debate pitting conservationists against the mining industry. Get the ...

Several developments last month are likely to shape the future of the controversial deep-sea mining industry. A congressional hearing on the subject highlighted the widely touted promise of seabed ...

WASHINGTON— President Trump signed an executive order today to fast-track a process that purports to allow U.S.-affiliated companies to mine the deep seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order ...

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, he felt the weight of the moment on his shoulders. The United Nations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...

A growing number of countries are calling to halt mining on the ocean floor. The topic will take center stage at thi annual assembly of the International Seabed Authority, which governs seabed mining.

NOAA deems application compliant under federal law, advancing timeline toward potential seabed mining permit by early 2027.

TMC the metals (TMC) has moved into the spotlight after regulators found its consolidated deep seabed mining application fully compliant and the company signed a binding deal with Allseas to build and ...

Deep-sea mining hopeful advances commercial plans with offshore production system targeting 3M tonnes annually.

Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them. By Eric Lipton The start of industrial-scale seabed mining ...

Eighty steel boxes, each roughly the size of a microwave oven, were lowered to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean between late ...

A little-known organisation is meeting this week in a conference centre in Jamaica. The rules the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are drafting could have immense impact. That’s because this ...