The U.S. has struck a deal with the Cook Islands to help capitalize on the island nation's critical mineral potential.

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

President Trump’s April executive order aims to accelerate U.S. deep-sea mining, stockpile critical minerals, and reduce ...

Extracting EV-battery metals from the ocean floor with support from the White House could hit tough technological and legal obstacles ...

Protecting national security means preventing ocean conflict—not accelerating it. We cannot outpace our principles.

Today, deep-sea mining —off-limits in international waters since 1982—has the backing of the Trump administration. Ocean scientists are racing to determine whether marine life can coexist with ...

That first deep-sea mining project didn't quite go as planned. The company struggled to attract financing and went bankrupt in 2019, though not before Barron sold his stake at a profit.

While calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining have not yet gained global consensus, they continue to gain momentum, ...

Shares of The Metals CompanyTMC.O - among the most prominent of deep-sea mining companies - rose on Thursday by roughly 40% to hit a 52-week high of $3.39 per share after the Reuters report ...

There's no evidence that deep-sea mining would prevent terrestrial mining. It's likely that both will occur, causing double destruction, rather than one taking the place of the other.

On April 24, President Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the ...

But in 1981, the Reagan Administration upended what were known as the law of the sea negotiations and withdrew U.S. support for the draft treaty over disputes about the deep sea mining provisions.