Seaweed absorbs rare minerals and elements from seawater as it grows. A new initiative from Blue Evolution, called Orca Minerals, aims to harvest the materials.

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

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

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

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

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

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Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

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

Rare earth elements are needed for everything from green technology to consumer goods like laptops and batteries. Mining them, though, can cause environmental problems. But researchers say some of ...

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