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 ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

China is responsible for most of the world’s processing of rare earth metals and minerals, but its new export restrictions ...

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

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

MP Materials moves up after the Financial Times reported that President Trump is set to issue an executive order allowing the ...

Credit - Carolyn Cole—Getty Images The Trump Administration is ... a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward ...