Native Hawaiian and environmental leaders are raising the alarm after President Trump signed an executive order to fast-track ...

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

Odyssey has a new business model, and an executive order signed by President Donald Trump may open many new opportunities to ...

Beyond imposing tariffs or pressuring the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, President Donald Trump's latest effort to ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

An executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump last week could potentially challenge existing global norms linked to deep-sea mining as he tries to reduce his country’s reliance on ...

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

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

Exploratory deep-sea mining began in the 1970s ... the nodules are brought up with seawater and sediments through a pipe to a ship, where they’re separated from the waste.

Deep-sea mining concerns the extraction of minerals from the ocean floor at depths of 200 metres or more. While it has never ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...