The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

Two sources who are directly involved in the White House's deliberations say that they are considering an executive order ...

Governments most interested in developing deep-sea mining industries in their waters include the Cook Islands, Norway and ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, companies are telling regulators they plan to move ahead, whether or not ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea ...