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

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 ...

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

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

In January 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard blamed a Cameroon- and Tanzania-flagged vessel crewed by seven Chinese nationals and ...

The legal argument that the U.S. retains rights to harvest minerals under domestic law was pioneered by the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Groves. Notably, TMC officials referenced Groves’ analysis in ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, said that the company believes they have enough knowledge to manage environmental ...

India has extended an auction of deep-sea blocks containing critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other ...

Executive order under consideration by the Trump Administration to open up the deep sea to mining would be economic folly and flout international consensus, experts say The US government is reportedly ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...