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

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

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 marine systems.

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

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

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 ...

Impossible Metals is testing a robot that can retrieve minerals with AI-powered cameras to protect marine life.

This proposed industry aims to generate supplies of critical minerals, but critics say the cost to the marine environment could be devastating. Some Norwegian deep-sea mining companies have faced ...