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

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say ...

Pressure on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to finalize and adopt regulations for deep-sea mining is increasing.

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

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 ...

THE wreckage of the doomed Bayesian superyacht is set to be salvaged from the sea bed to find the key clues in the mystery ...

Detailed scanning of the seabed, for instance, can provide information about the visibility of naval mines and the accuracy of sonar. The surveys can also help determine what minerals could be ...

HONG KONG—China is rapidly expanding ocean exploration in waters far beyond its shores, sending out a fleet of vessels whose research offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands ...