In his latest move to secure supplies of critical raw materials, the US president has instructed federal officials to ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores and minerals.

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

The practice of deep-sea mining involves using heavy machinery to remove minerals and metals from the seabed, where they ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...

In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...