Beijing is still tightening its grip over supplies of rare earths and other key minerals despite the tariff truce, allowing it to cut off US access at will In mid-March, customs officers in Hong Kong ...

The near-bottom water in the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional ...

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

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

Europe Industrial Lubricants Industry Synthetic ester-based lubricants are reshaping Europe's industrial market by combining high performan ...

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

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

Deep-sea mining’s rise raises urgent legal, ethical, and environmental questions as demand for critical minerals grows in the ...

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

The deep-sea mining gamble holds no financial miracle. Rather, it is a sinking investment that is quite literally costing the ...