For several months, the waters around New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea have been causing illness, skin irritation and ...

The UN's deep-sea mining regulator adjourned without a clear timeline for finishing industry rules, even as the U.S. pushes ahead with mining plans under domestic law.

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC / ACCESS Newswire / March 19, 2026 / Deep Sea Rare Minerals, Inc. ("DSRM" or the "Company") today announced completion of a pre-front-end engineering and design ("pre-FEED") study, ...

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

The government is considering mineral leasing in almost 70 million acres of the outer continental shelf near the Northern ...

The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem.

Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has quashed most of the convictions against the senior bureaucrat at the centre of the country's biggest corruption case.

Kerry Howell receives funding from the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge. Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometre beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef ...

The ship sails regularly from Brisbane and back through New Caledonia and Vanuatu, which Carnival said will see a “small reduction in voyages”Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The ...

A veritable gold rush appears to be opening up, not in the dusty hills of California but in the deep seabeds of the Pacific Ocean — one that’s being driven by an insatiable global demand of critical ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County leaders are doubling down on their opposition to Trump administration efforts that could open up the California coast to what many local advocates say are harmful ...