Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples ...

Legal experts say deep-sea mining cannot start until the ISA agrees how profits from the global seabed would be shared.

With less than two weeks before the federal government's deadline for public input on a controversial deep-sea mining ...

Sen. Therese Terlaje and a group of nine Republicans and Democrats in the Guam Legislature want the federal government to ...

It will mark the world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare earth mud from a depth of around 6,000m on to a vessel. Read ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

The US just inched closer to endorsing a new kind of mining frontier: scraping metals from the deep ocean floor in ...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, we have witnessed an upsurge of interest and intrigue surrounding the critical minerals necessary for the renewable energy transition and ...

In a push to pause the federal government’s proposal to open over 35 million acres of waters in the Marianas for mineral extraction, one veteran policymaker has introduced a resolution to show G ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental concerns with little to show for it.

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) shareholders voted against a proposed moratorium on sourcing electric vehicle battery metals from deep-sea mining. The growing debate over deep-sea mining reflects the ...

The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...