The president has ordered the agency to swifty advance the approval of licenses and permits for exploring and mining deep-sea ...

President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that many international onlookers viewed as a startling provocation: he ...

Jim Kennedy, a consultant and entrepreneur of rare earths — a group of 17 metallic elements, including 15 lanthanides, ...

The UN Ocean Summit in Nice advanced marine protection and the High Seas Treaty—but lacked funding commitments and avoided ...

In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such ...

The deep ocean needs to be studied, not mined, but the Trump administration is barreling ahead, violating international law.

The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

But mining these resources would disrupt ocean ecosystems, including endangering thousands of undiscovered species. Polymetallic nodules – lumps of minerals that accrue on the seabed over ...

Gunasekara spoke of the need to first harness “the enormous reserve of nodules” in US waters, a step that would not conflict with international law. Both he and Barron touted seabed mining as ...

As ISA negotiations dragged on, company executives lobbied Trump White House officials to issue seabed mining licenses. A polymetallic nodule “was presented to the president last week and now ...

calling it “a deliberate strategy” to slow seabed mining. He also said a polymetallic nodule extracted by his company was presented to Mr. Trump recently, and he claimed it now sat on the ...

Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by The Metals Company during a test expedition. The company hopes to extract nodules of critical minerals from the seabed. Deep-sea mining equipment being ...