America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Four kilometers below the ocean surface lie vast fields of metal-rich nodules that could power millions of electric vehicles. Deep sea mining promises to ease the supply chain crisis for critical ...

There is growing alarm over climate and ecological risks of deep-sea mining, even as companies like Impossible Metals develops a mining robot intended to work on the seabed of the Pacific.

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

TMC the metals company Inc. (NASDAQ:TMC) is one of the 10 Stocks That Investors Are Dumping. TMC dropped its share prices for ...

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

Mining and mineral resources have always been a lightning rod for economic and political power, and the modern era is no different – 2025 has seen ...

Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific ...

What makes The Metals Company (TMC), a little-known company that isn't even making any money, a threat to the ocean, ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

TOKYO — Japan will starting January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its ...