The measure directs the Commerce Department to speed up reviewing and issuing permits for exploration and commercial recovery ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to expand US deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals in domestic ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at establishing American "dominance" in deep-sea mining in international waters.

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to affect marine ecosystems, raising concerns over its lasting ...

A handful of firms are waiting for Norway to issue the first deep sea mining licenses. File photo of deep-sea mining protestors. Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/ AFP Companies are raring to explore the ...

The industry has already suffered a false start. Norway's parliament had voted massively in favour of deep-sea mining, experts had concluded there were significant resources to be extracted ...

Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow deep-sea mining -- much to the dismay of environmentalists. The industry has ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...