By Jackie Dragon At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island ...

Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

America has lawful authority to proceed with deep-sea mining—and doing so would break China’s dominance in critical mineral ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Republicans cheered the administration's push to open domestic and international waters to mining. Bipartisan critics argued ...

Thousands of feet deep, parts of the seafloor are covered in polymetallic nodules. The potato-sized formations are being targeted by mining companies because of the metals they contain. (NOAA Ocean ...

The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping routes and a chokepoint for about one-fifth of the world's oil, is becoming a flashpoint in the Iran war as explosive-laden boats have ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...