New research reveals how deep-sea mining waste could devastate the ocean's twilight zone. Learn how these sediment plumes ...

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

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a ...

China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific Ocean.

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended activities at a Chinese-operated mining site in the south of the resource-rich country after a spill, mines minister Louis Watum Kabamba said late on ...

Vedanta Resources Limited ("Vedanta") today announced the launch of CopperTech Metals Inc. ("CopperTech" or the "Company"), a U.S.-domiciled company with a mission to ' Power the Copper Century' and ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...

American Samoa faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial fishing and a rising push for deep-sea mining -- forces ...

After decades in this field, one thing is clear: The natural world remains the ultimate infrastructure. It purifies our water ...

Moroccan mining company Managem SA said on Wednesday it signed a deal to supply French carmaker Renault Group with low carbon ...