Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

When Alyssa Myatt’s husband served on an aircraft carrier last year, she and other U.S. Navy spouses had to follow strict security protocols that meant driving to the ship’s home port just to learn ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and ...

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...

Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold ...

Researchers have discovered a potentially younger and active volcanic hotspot beneath the Cook Islands' waters, prompting ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

President Donald Trump's plan to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding industry is likely to backfire because it relies on ...