The Latest Breaking News from the International Seabed Authority

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in international waters begins Monday in Jamaica, with hopes high for adoption this year.

As the U.N. weighs ocean floor mining, Hawai'i just banned the practice

Thérèse Coffey says data will be gathered on impact of emerging industry and UK will not support licences in meantime

Environmental groups are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an international meeting in Jamaica where an obscure U.N. body will debate the issue amid fears it could soon authorize the world’s first license to harvest minerals from the ocean floor

Brazil is urging a 10-year precautionary pause on deep sea mining in international waters just days after companies and countries were allowed to start applying for provisional licenses

A U.N. agency tasked with regulating the deep sea is debating whether to open the Earth’s watery depths to countries and companies that are now allowed to start applying for provisional mining licenses

David Lammy says Labour government would join growing list of countries and multinationals opposing rush to mine the seabed

Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.