The practice of deep-sea mining involves using heavy machinery to remove minerals and metals from the seabed, where they ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his ...

The measure directs the Commerce Department to speed up reviewing and issuing permits for exploration and commercial recovery ...

The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in ...

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase ... a process to recover nearly all of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries for recycling," said Dr. Sumaila.

Proponents of deep-sea mining like Barron emphasize that seabed mining would supply cobalt, manganese, and other critical minerals to make batteries for electric vehicles and could accelerate the ...