On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

As China clamps down on rare earth exports, the U.S. is looking to the ocean floor. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order backing deep-sea mining, a contentious method that has ...

Trump wants an expedited permitting process in place for deep sea mining in 60 days. Advocates say the ocean should be protected, not extracted.

President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while it r ...

An executive order will unleash a global oceanbed mining boom ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to boost the US’ offshore mining capabilities.  The order seeks to ...

An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.

Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students' records in a federal database.

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

TMC notes that the U.S. Congress passed the Deep Sea Hard Minerals Recovery Act (DSHMRA) in 1980, affirming that deep-seabed ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...