Scientists warn deep-sea mining recovery depends on habitat, and some losses in vents and seamounts may be irreversible.

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors, and stock prices have soared.

A Pulitzer Center fellow and CNN senior reporter followed the development of the nascent deep-sea mining industry and how ...

Critical minerals are the new oil: Everyone needs them, but not every country has them. That’s led some to search for them in some pretty wild places. And few places are as outlandish as the ocean ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

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