With just about a week remaining before the federal comment deadline, more Guam senators are publicly joining the island's ...

A coalition of four organizations has submitted a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from Guam and the Commonwealth of ...

The U.S. government is moving closer to approving deep-sea mining in international waters, opening a contentious new front in ...

The push to use large tracts of the seafloor east of the Mariana Islands for deep-sea mining faces united opposition from ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

Scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be disturbed or harmed by deep-sea mining.

The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

(NewsNation) — After President Donald Trump loosened regulations for mining the ocean floor, companies are preparing to take part in what could be a deep-sea minerals boom. NewsNation went behind the ...