On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

Seabed mining doesn’t normally attract much media attention, but President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on the topic, ...

Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we have still only explored a tiny area of the deep ...

Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

While deep-sea mining could reduce U.S. dependence on foreign supply chains, environmental advocates warn that the practice ...

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

The Trump administration has taken the first step toward opening waters near American Samoa to deep-sea mining. According to ...

President Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining and exercising U.S. sovereignty by doing so, even with the country not being a signatory party to UCLOS, are both perfectly legal. Seabed mining ...