As Japan gears up to mine its extended continental shelf, serious questions remain about whether international regulators will be ready. The deep seabed contains significant stores of minerals such as ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

A new study reveals that 59,000 kilometers, or nearly 37,000 miles, of tropical rivers have been damaged by mining, based on 7 million measurements taken from satellite images spanning four decades.

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A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

The dearth of new greenfield mines – particularly copper – has been a problem for the industry for decades. A new study by the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute provides stark ...

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Jon Moore (left), professor at Simon Fraser University, and Mark Connor (right), Fisheries Coordinator for the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, stand on the banks of the Tulsequah River, which flows ...

A study published today in Global Environmental Change shows that the approval of Brazil’s Bill 191 allowing mining on Indigenous land could be detrimental to up to 43 uncontacted Indigenous groups.