Residents have a saying in Spruce Pine, that a piece of their home is in tech across the globe. But could geopolitical ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

In this issue: diving into deep-sea mining; exploring plans for an REE refinery in France; how mines are transforming water ...

For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human ...

Interior reports that on April 8, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received a formal request for a lease ...

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

Interest in deep-sea mining has increased globally in recent years. And even as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the ...

Even with President Trump’s recent executive order, building a deep-sea mining industry in the United States remains a ...

Impossible Metals is testing a robot that can retrieve minerals with AI-powered cameras to protect marine life.

Trump last month signed an executive order to accelerate the permit-granting process for deep-sea mining in domestic and ...

The oil-and-gas and deep-sea-mining industries require extensive knowledge, and they pay for it. But, with a few exceptions, the characteristics of the deepest trenches are largely unknown.