On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

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

U.S. President Trump’s order comes less than a month after the Vancouver-based Metals Company said it was seeking U.S.

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

A recent poll commissioned by Greenpeace Norway found that only 18% of civilians in Norway support deep-sea mining. Then there are several political parties in the country that oppose deep-sea ...

The HMS Challenger research expedition discovered polymetallic nodules—the metal lumps mining operations are now targeting in the Pacific—in the 1870s. Scientists first found deep-sea vents ...

which are found on the ocean floor. US President Donald Trump recently voiced support for accelerating deep-sea mining, adding pressure on allies to secure mineral supply chains. Loke, which had ...

Now, a group of researchers at Beihang University, formerly known as the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, have further consolidated China's lead in this arena by creating a ...

The potential sale comes amid heightened global interest in critical minerals used in batteries, such as nickel, cobalt and copper that are found on the ocean floor. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

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 ...