Every person who takes action adds strength to the call to stop deep sea mining before it starts. I’ve had my say; now it's your turn.

A magical new film captures the secret life of the deep sea in a stretch of the ocean at risk from industrial mining

Call on the UK to protect our oceans and stop deep sea mining before it starts.

How can the EU's upcoming Arctic Strategy match the scale and urgency of the environmental challenges facing the Arctic, and does it provide sufficient safeguards against a new wave of resource extrac...

Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.

Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.

The total weight of all Antarctic krill—a tiny yet mighty zooplankton--is greater than the cumulative weight of any other animal species on the planet except for humans. Krill provide 96% of the calor...

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...

As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in. A Tyee special report.

Exclusive: Research suggests financial penalties necessary if number of large vehicles on roads is to be reduced

Is deep-sea mining inevitable? Can deep-sea mining be sustainable? Will the deep-sea mining community ever agree on a payment regime under the common heritage principle? Can the United States issue…

Meet the “barbie pig,” “gummy squirrel,” and “headless chicken monster”: These fantastical-sounding nicknames belong to real creatures living in the deep sea—one of the most extreme environments on Ea...

Call on the countries to reject destructive deep-sea mining and support a moratorium now. Urge them to stand on the right side of history and protect our ocean and the life support systems it provides...

Call on the countries to reject destructive deep-sea mining and support a moratorium now. Urge them to stand on the right side of history and protect our ocean and the life support systems it provides...

The Guam Legislature voted Friday to ban deep-sea mining from island waters, a symbolic but pointed rebuke of a federal push that has already moved faster than most island leaders

Meet the “barbie pig,” “gummy squirrel,” and “headless chicken monster”: These fantastical-sounding nicknames belong to real creatures living in the deep sea—one of the most extreme environments on Earth. And taxonomists, the scientists who discover and name new species, are finding new life in the ocean with every expedition to its depths. In fact, the deep sea makes up 90% of the marine environment, yet recent science suggests we've seen less than 1% of it.

Residents of al-Bustan district told to make way for Kings Garden, with knocking down own houses cheaper option

The recent push by the United States to mine the international seabed for critical minerals, such as manganese and cobalt, has been met with widespread calls to quickly enact international regulations...

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?

Trump's aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure on global negotiators to act fast to shape deep-sea mining rules.

Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

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On January 22, 2026 the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing titled “Deep Dive: Examining the Regulatory and Statutory Barriers to Deep Sea…

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A new series of research cruises will study rare abyssal species in areas slated for mining

A new nudibranch species is the first known to inhabit the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for life in this environment.

A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species ric...