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But seafaring nations may be entering a new era Last week, the Trump administration responded definitively with a new ...

President Donald Trump has issued an order aimed at opening America's waters to deep sea mining. Here's what the impact could ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

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

Trump has effectively fired the starting gun for an international free-for-all on extracting minerals from the ocean floor.

The quest to exploit deep-sea mineral resources — and debates over benefits and harms — is intensifying in D.C. and ...

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

Canada's The Metals Company said Tuesday it applied to the United States to mine deep-sea minerals in international waters, a ...

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

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

At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and ...