A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest in Japan for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue ...

Research shows that deep discharge of mining waste must be assessed, as its impact on ocean ecosystems varies and could cause ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates.

Deep-sea mining poses significant risks to marine ecosystems and climate stability, prompting calls for a moratorium on commercial extraction activities.

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Elizabeth Klein says the Interior Department is fast-tracking seabed mining using "already bare-bones, vague, decades-old ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. Deep-sea mining is unregulated. Some want to forge ...