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

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

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 ...