China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

WWF is calling for a science-based moratorium on deep seabed mining at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), urging governments to uphold the precautionary principle and prevent irreversible ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are meeting in Kingston to thrash out the first mining ... In June, it ...

"Sound science must underpin all decisions related to the deep seabed," she told an ocean meeting in Tokyo by video link. The ...