The Latest Breaking News from the International Seabed Authority

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep international waters for more than 30 years

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

Marking a pivotal moment for the fate of the barely known ecosystems on the ocean floor, 168 nations will decide this week who will head the International Seabed Authority

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