The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

California State Parks, which manages more than 340 miles of California’s coastline, is asking the public not to collect any ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

“A world powered by renewables is a world hungry for critical minerals,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a ...

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

The move is designed to help private companies access billions of tons of potato-sized rocks known ... The practice of deep-sea mining involves using machinery to remove minerals and metals ...

Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine ... Westerly winds dropped an even finer coating of rock dust ...