Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres ...

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor.

Legal experts say deep-sea mining cannot start until the ISA agrees how profits from the global seabed would be shared.

The US just inched closer to endorsing a new kind of mining frontier: scraping metals from the deep ocean floor in ...

A French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968 has been located during a search mission, officials said on Monday, ending a 51-year wait for families of the deceased who ...

Kawamura Yoshihisa, SIP Rare Earth Production Technology Development Theme Leader / Recovering sediment rich in ...

In December, one of America’s largest territorial expansions took place, with barely any public notice. The U.S. has claimed sovereignty over 1 million square kilometers — larger than Texas and ...

The U.S. extended its claims on the ocean floor by an area twice the size of California, securing rights to potentially resource-rich seabeds at a time when Washington is ramping up efforts to ...

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.

Mapping the seabed of all of the world’s oceans in their entirety by 2030 sounds like a ludicrously big job – but that is the incredible task facing the Seabed 2030 Project. What is more surprising is ...

A government-backed trial will lift mineral-rich seabed mud to the surface as Tokyo seeks secure supplies beyond China.