Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain ...

After two weeks of negotiations, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is still far from finalizing rules for extracting ...

Japan's $26 billion deep-sea mining project near Minami-Tori-shima, aimed at extracting cobalt and nickel for EV batteries, ...

The Trump administration has declared its intention to establish the US States as a global leader in seabed mining. On April 24, US President Trump signed an executive order making it a priority of ...