U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee dismissed the lawsuit against TMC The Metals Co. on Friday, finding that the company hadn’t ...

Lockheed Martin re-enters deep-sea mining in lucrative Pacific Ocean zone, negotiating partnerships for access to valuable ...

House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer is probing how the Department of Defense is complying with President Donald Trump’s order to unleash deep-sea mining. The Kentucky Republican ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

150 sea mines have been discovered floating adrift in the Black Sea since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, six of them in Romanian territorial waters. And they represent a constant danger.

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea.

Sea mines laid by both sides in the Russo-Ukrainian War are starting to pose a risk to civilians and other noncombatants throughout the Black Sea. Breaking free of their moorings, the mines are ...

Dean Lomax: Unearthing a 180-million-year-old sea dragon Known now as the mother of paleontology, Mary Anning's work was largely overlooked. But her research helped paleontologist Dean R. Lomax ...

A Turkish-flagged general cargo ship hit a mine on Thursday in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania and sustained minor damage but the crew was safe, maritime and security sources said.

The man behind Ukraine's innovative naval drone program told the WSJ how Sea Baby drones are laying mines that have struck several Russian warships.

Not long after sea mines were developed, a ship was invented to defend against them. Here's everything you need to know about the U.S. Navy's minesweepers.