President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to boost the deep-sea mining industry, the ...

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, the ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

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

Some deep-sea mining companies have faced significant financial struggles due to the delay, with one company going bankrupt and another slashing costs; yet, other firms remain optimistic ...

But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially destructive process. Special correspondent Willem Marx joined William Brangham to discuss how the Trump administration is ...

Two parallel regulatory regimes for deep-sea mining have begun to emerge in recent years. On the one hand, the International Seabed Authority ...