Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and ...

mining firms plan to send uncrewed collector vehicles down to the bottom of the ocean. The Metals Company vehicle, which is about the size of a school bus, would crawl along the seabed ...

When Seabed 2030 launched in 2017 ... head of the project's Atlantic and Indian Ocean Centre. "You start to see the details and the patterns, you start to understand the (ocean) processes in ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...