Interior reports that on April 8, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received a formal request for a lease ...

In February, the Cook Islands announced a key deal with China: a five-year agreement on deep sea exploration of marine ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Some companies, like the Norwegian firm Loke Marine Minerals, have already gone bust due to funding troubles. As for another key stakeholder—nature—Sumaila’s paper concluded that the costs ...

New biomining platform eschews environmentally destructive conventional mining to source critical minerals via photosynthetic ...

Interest in deep-sea mining has increased globally in recent years. And even as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the ...

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

Here’s why Norway is taking a leading role. Photo: Loke Marine Minerals President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the mining of the deep sea as part of a broader effort by ...

Loke Marine Minerals, which had hopes of becoming a world leader, declared bankruptcy last week. Its rival, Green Minerals, has had to cut costs by 80 percent. “We are as ready now as before to ...