The Pacific Islands region, which stretches across almost a fifth of the world’s surface and holds vast amounts of untapped ...

A new report by environmental groups lays out a case for banning deep sea mining—and explains why the real solution to humanity’s energy crisis might just be sitting in the trash. Deep sea mining is ...

Our Commonwealth 670 and PåganWatch, joined by the Conservation Council for Hawai'i and Center for Biological Diversity, filed a lawsuit in a US District Court on Tuesday.

With President Trump's recent executive order, the race to the bottom of the ocean has begun. Mining companies are looking to ...

It has long been known, then, that deep seabed mining is potentially bad news for ocean life. But deep seabed mining proponents use the language of "necessary sacrifice" to argue that the energy ...

Building everything necessary for fighting climate change is going require metal. There's plenty on the ocean floor. But extracting it is controversial because it involves deep sea mining. Building ...

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 ...

It’s 04:00, pitch black, and the bed is listing wildly. Eyes wide open after a sharp knock on the door of his small cabin, geologist Bramley Murton from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre props ...

London, England, Jan. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rising demand for battery metals like nickel and cobalt and next-gen subsea technologies to fuel the demand over the coming decade. The global deep ...

The world’s oceans are on the brink of a major disaster if controversial plans to start deep sea mining in international waters go ahead as early as next year, an expert has warned. Dr. Sandor Mulsow, ...