Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to approve its plans to mine the international ...

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, Trump has ignited a new fight over seabed mining; America’s only rare-earth mine ...

President Trump signed an executive order to boost the U.S. deep-sea mining industry for critical minerals. Supporters say ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting. These changes now implicate the international framework for ...

Te Ipukarea Society says the arrogance of the US president to think he can break international law by authorising deep sea ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

“Deep-sea mining has the potential to impact not just the seabed environment, but all of the life in between,” said Jeff Watters, external affairs vice president for the U.S.-based nonprofit ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Canada's The Metals Company said Tuesday it applied to the United States to mine deep-sea minerals in international waters, a ...