The Blake Plateau, an astonishing deep-sea mountain range, features striking pillars of marine life alongside humanity’s ...

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

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

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

Any country can mine its own water. Norway voted last year to open part of its Arctic seabed to deep-sea mining but has since paused the project. In international waters, the process is governed ...

Only 1.5% of coral habitat in the world is considered pristine, so the protection of the seabed is one of the most robust ...

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

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

On April 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order aimed at fast-tracking deep-sea mining.

As global demand for critical minerals intensifies — driven by the energy transition, technological innovation, and geopolitical competition ...

Two witnesses at the hearing—Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, and Oliver Gunasekara, CEO of Impossible Metals, a California-based deep-sea mining firm—argued that seabed mining is ...