The metals could help meet long-term demand during the energy transition from fossil fuels, while reducing the human ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has denigrated electric vehicles and imposed tariffs on EV and battery parts that ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

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

The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Thursday to accelerate deep-sea mining operations, part of a ...

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United States is finally prepared to unlock private investment in a long ...

Market prices for minerals and metals sought from the deep sea have sharply declined in recent years, driven by global oversupplies from conventional mining and battery innovations. This could be ...