Governments face pressure to delay seabed mining as legal risks, fragile ecosystems and global treaty commitments collide.

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

Deep inside a massive gold mine, exploration reaches a point where dry tunnels give way to flooded lower levels. Water has slowly filled sections once used for extraction, cutting off access to deeper ...

The Metals Company (NASDAQ:TMC), a deep-sea mining exploration company, has announced a pre-application consultation with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has engaged with ...