By Carolyn Cowan Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain ...

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 ...

New research highlights significant ecological risks from deep-sea mining, intensifying global debate over whether securing ...

A new peer-reviewed study published in Nature Communications on Thursday warns that waste from deep-sea mining could disrupt life in the ocean’s “twilight zone”, a key midwater layer supporting much ...

The fate of Twin Metals Minnesota’s plan to mine copper and nickel from sulfide ores in northern Minnesota — just five miles from the edge of the federally protected Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

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.

Rising demand for the metals needed to power the global renewable energy transition potentially threatens more than a third of Africa’s great apes. Nearly 180,000 gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos ...

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The potential ecological consequences of deep-sea mining gained attention recently after a team of European researchers, through collecting data from an industrial trial, reported a sharp reduction in ...

In a move that brought celebration among environmentalists but trepidation for supporters of mining in northern Minnesota, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced Wednesday a ...