Director Ridley Scott may have just found his next alien. An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores. This discovery, ...

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Commercial mining of the sea floor could soon get the green light. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a body associated with the United Nations that oversees deep-sea mining in international ...

Stunning new deep-sea footage shows the sunken Titan submersible’s severed tail cone resting on the ocean floor after its doomed voyage last June. The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, sports a shaggy mop of hair, a rakish beard and a leather bomber jacket with a palm-sized, poly-metallic nodule in its pocket. Aside from setting off metal ...

There is an argument to be made that a number of the provisions in the UNCLOS deep seabed regime have attained the status of customary law. 5 The prohibition of unilateral mining activities may ...