The measure directs the Commerce Department to speed up reviewing and issuing permits for exploration and commercial recovery ...

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

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

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 ...

Deep-sea mining not only poses significant environmental, social and economic risks for coastal communities and Small Island ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

Letting deep-sea mining go forward now would be like starting a fire in a library of books nobody’s even read yet," said Emily Jeffers, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.