But seafaring nations may be entering a new era Last week, the Trump administration responded definitively with a new ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

President Donald Trump first set his sights on Canada and Greenland’s mineral resources. Now he’s eyeing the global seabed that holds vast troves of critical metals for green technologies but is ...

The Energy Wizards, comprised of seven Dunlap middle schoolers, made the cut and brought home a finalist trophy in the ...

The head of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) on Wednesday criticized US President Donald Trump's order to fast-track ...

"It is not the great silver bullet that solves our critical mineral problem," said Natural Resources ranking member Jared ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

On April 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order aimed at fast-tracking deep-sea mining.

A massive stone monolith has been found protruding from the Pacific Ocean seafloor like a giant finger, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration. The pillar is 49 feet high, 36 feet long and 13 feet wide, ...

France on Monday accused the United States of violating international law after President Donald Trump signed an order to ...

An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.