A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental concerns with little to show for it.

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for ...

Mankind has mined the earth’s surface for thousands of years. Now there’s a furious race to find even more metal that will enable the world’s energy transition away from fossil fuels. In Papua New ...

Govs. Lou Leon Guerrero and David Apatang are asking federal ocean officials to send a representative to Guam and the ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co. asked the Trump administration today to approve its plans to mine the international seabed, making it the first such company to seek the government’s permission to ...

Advanced Navigation (AN), based in Pyhäjärvi, Finland, a developer of laser-based navigation and autonomous systems, has demonstrated a breakthrough in underground navigation, achieving precise ...

Rescuers on Tuesday pulled several survivors and dead bodies from one of South Africa’s deepest mines, where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped underground for months in an abandoned shaft ...