The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

California State Parks, which manages more than 340 miles of California’s coastline, is asking the public not to collect any ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

“A world powered by renewables is a world hungry for critical minerals,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by ... is the lack of a refining and processing infrastructure for the minerals, and pulling rocks from the depths will not change that.

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa.

Most interest is in polymetallic modules: small, potato-sized rocks scattered ... s campaign to stop deep-sea mining. While the appetite for many critical minerals is soaring, some experts say ...

Instead of blasting rocks or the seabed ... The Trump administration also wants to fast-track deep-sea mining—extracting minerals from the ocean floor—something scientists say could cause ...

In 2013, scientists were stunned to find microbes thriving deep inside volcanic rocks beneath the seafloor ... of marine life that snows from the sea above, or from the non-biological chemical ...