Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S.

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

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed that the effects of a deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean more than four decades ago are still apparent ...

California's Salton Sea holds vast lithium reserves worth $540 billion, essential for electric vehicle batteries. However, extracting this 'white gold' could worsen the region's existing environmental ...

“There’s going to be damage at a very large scale,” said Jeffrey Drazen, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaiʻi who has received funding from a deep-sea mining company to research ...