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

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

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

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

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of ...

China is currently by far the world’s biggest supplier of rare earth minerals, accounting for nearly 70% of the global ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

He estimated that allowing the company to collect a billion tonnes of nodules via deep-sea mining could provide the United States with "456 years of manganese, 165 years of cobalt, 81 years of ...

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 ...