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 ...

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

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

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

In the race for green technology, the deep ocean is the new battleground. Will mining critical minerals save the climate — or unleash ecological disaster? Dive in to explore what's at stake.

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, stands before his company’s research ship in San Diego in June ... with environmental NGOs who see the deep-sea mining industry as their ‘last green ...

US President Donald Trump has ordered officials in his government to fast-track deepsea mining, leading to cheers from the ...

New York (AFP) – A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company ... vehicle that gathers the raw materials from the ocean floor and transports them to a ship on the water's surface using a ...