A push to extract minerals from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is gaining momentum. Here is how it works and why it has become a global flashpoint.

That tension between urgent mineral demand and largely invisible deep-sea life sits at the heart of the deep-sea mining dilemma, as described by deep-sea biologist Adrian Glover of London’s Natural ...

In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American ...

Bahrain has sponsored deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals' application for a mining permit with the International Seabed Authority, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to support the ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...