China has placed some rare earth elements under export restrictions in retaliation to U.S. President Donald Trump's steep ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

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 ...

The International Seabed Authority isn’t close to setting rules on harvesting minerals more than a decade after talks on how ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

The International Seabed Authority has raised concerns over The Metals Company’s bid to bypass multilateral oversight by ...

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea research ship that sailed clockwise around Australia over the past week and is now loitering west of the continent. But maybe ...

The focus of the programme is to explore viable natural gas reserves in the Otway Basin, with COPA and 3D Energi key players ...

The global environmental community is issuing an urgent appeal to protect the marine environment ahead of the UN Ocean ...

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