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

WASHINGTON— President Trump signed an executive order today to fast-track a process that purports to allow U.S.-affiliated companies to mine the deep seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order ...

President Donald Trump thew into turmoil a global effort to limit mining in the deep sea, signing an order to open up ...

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that aims to jumpstart mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea ...

The administration moves to sidestep U.N. body governing the ocean floor and the harvesting of minerals and metals in ...

Five thousand meters beneath the Pacific Ocean is a deep-sea mining hotbed and a swarm of odd creatures that need protecting.

The resuspension of seafloor sediments—triggered by human activities such as bottom trawling as well as natural processes ...