The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to affect marine ecosystems, raising concerns over its lasting ...

New York (AFP) – A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US President Donald Trump.

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...