A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Move by The Metals Company comes less than a week after the president launched plans to boost American procurement of ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, Trump has ignited a new fight over seabed mining; America’s only rare-earth mine ...

We still know very little about the ecology of mesophotic ecosystems, but they support long-lived protected species that form ...

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

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

Deep-sea mining activities can create sediment plumes, introduce noise and light pollution, and discharge water with higher concentrations of metals, potentially disrupting tuna habitats and altering ...

"Deep-sea mining activities can create sediment plumes, introduce noise and light pollution, and discharge water with higher concentrations of metals, potentially disrupting tuna habitats and ...

Deep-sea mining activities can create sediment plumes, introduce noise and light pollution, and discharge water with higher concentrations of metals, potentially disrupting tuna habitats and ...