Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

Proponents of deep-sea mining like Barron emphasize that seabed mining would supply cobalt, manganese and other critical ...

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in ...

The push for clean energy is driving interest in deep-sea mining, a controversial method of extracting critical metals from the ocean floor. These polymetallic nodules contain key ingredients for ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

Scientists have scooped up sediment in box cores dropped from ships and deployed remote vehicles to take pictures ... nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a cover story.

Interest in joining the deep-sea mining rush is growing. Indonesia, the largest miner of nickel on land, notified the ISA last year that it intends to sponsor an exploration contract, the first in ...

Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as ... I am concerned about the impact of deep-sea mining on this ecologically important midwater zone. This ecosystem is home to zooplankton ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is under way over when and whether to allow mining of ...