While deep-sea mining could reduce U.S. dependence on foreign supply chains, environmental advocates warn that the practice ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

The Trump administration considers selling leases for seabed mineral extraction near American Samoa, igniting debate between ...

The Trump administration is considering leasing seabed areas off American Samoa for mineral extraction, sparking ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Seabed mining doesn’t normally attract much media attention, but President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on the topic, ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. In 2013, a ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...