“It’s better down where it’s wetter,” crooned Sebastian, the Disney crab, to the Little Mermaid. The sentiment is enthusiastically shared by a group of investors who have bet millions on extracting ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for humanity's ...

India has extended an auction of deep-sea blocks containing critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, said that the company believes they have enough knowledge to manage environmental ...

Regarding onshore minerals, last month Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to expand domestic mining and processing of critical minerals to reduce foreign dependence.

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

He estimated that allowing the company to collect a billion tonnes of nodules via deep-sea mining could provide the United States with "456 years of manganese, 165 years of cobalt, 81 years of ...