A battle is heating up over the extraction of minerals from seabeds and Beijing needs allies to win it, researchers say.

identifying an estimated 230 million tonnes of nodules rich in cobalt and nickel. The nodules are small, round formations ...

Norway has temporarily halted the licensing process to permit Arctic seabed mining for critical metals. Meanwhile the WWF's ...

A small left-wing environmentalist group, secured an agreement to delay the initiative in exchange for supporting the ...