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

The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump. In April ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...