President Donald Trump issued a groundbreaking executive order directing the United States to accelerate deep-sea mining ...

As negotiations rumble on, mining companies have grown impatient. Trump’s executive order offers a way to bypass the international process and start extracting. A US deep-sea mining industry is ...

NOAA is charged with protecting, not imperiling, the ocean and its economic benefits, including fishing and tourism; and ...

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

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to approve its plans to mine the international ...

The Metals Company has made history with the first-ever application for two exploration licenses and a commercial recovery ...

A Canadian company seeks US permits to mine the seafloor, sparking controversy for bypassing the UN's International Seabed ...

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

The announcement came on the same day the US House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing to explore the potential of deep-sea mining. The Metals Company mad ...