Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

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

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

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

The Interior Department on Tuesday said it’s begun the process of evaluating a possible offshore mineral lease sale in U.S.

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

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

The move follows a request for a lease sale from a company the Interior Department identified as US-based Impossible Metals.

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

The agency said the process would “evaluate a potential mineral lease sale in the waters offshore American Samoa.” The ...