A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

U.S. President Donald Trump has defied international norms and instructed a quick start to deep-sea mining in domestic waters and beyond, sparking an angry warning from Beijing that the move ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the ocean floor despite the ...

A Sinner of the Deep Sea is a nearly-perfect three-volume series. I wish it could have been longer, because this is a world and characters who are so well realized that it feels like a shame to ...

“Any attempt to accelerate deep-sea mining without proper safeguards will only speed up the destruction of our oceans.” This was echoed by the Washington-based group Ocean ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the seabed. Within 60 days of the date ...

Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump has defied international norms on the nascent field of deep-sea mining, signing an executive order expanding the practice for rare earth minerals in ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to expand US deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals in domestic and international waters, despite warnings by environmental groups.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order to jump-start the controversial practice of deep-sea mining, seeking to offset China's dominant position in critical mineral ...

"The United States has a core national security and economic interest in maintaining leadership in deep sea science and technology and seabed mineral resources," Trump said in the executive order ...

Economic Opportunities Deep-sea mining is seen by the administration as another avenue for extracting rare-earth elements such as manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper, helping wean the US off ...