Here’s what we know so far. The idea of deep-sea mining has been around for about 150 years. The British warship HMS Challenger in March 1873 hauled up “several peculiar black oval bodies which were ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at opening U.S. waters to deep-sea mining. Many conservatives and industry groups contend the order is meant to break America's ...

Once again, Donald Trump is taking steps to destroy our planet. He signed an executive order fast-tracking deep-sea mining in U.S. and international waters for critical minerals such as cobalt ...

The filing is expected to spark a complex legal battle since the Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority, a U.N. agency that regulates international deep-sea waters, has the power to ...

Canadian deep-sea miner The Metals Company asked the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday for permission to harvest critical minerals from the ocean floor, under a new ...

Here’s what else to know. Who is in charge of deep-sea mining in international waters? The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea established the ISA to regulate deep sea mining beyond national ...

The contentious move follows a recent executive order from the Trump administration that directed the U.S. government to fast-track deep-sea mining in an effort to secure supplies of critical ...

The Metals Company (TMC), a Canadian firm, has applied to the US for deep-sea mineral mining in international waters, a first of its kind. Supported by Trump's initiative, TMC aims to extract ...

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dead fish in an ...

But this unique ecosystem faces an unprecedented threat. As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ...

Chris Hemsworth is set to star in the Amazon MGM deep sea thriller “Subversion,” which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Directed by Patrick Vollrath from a script by Andrew Ferguson ...

A recent executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump to invest in deep sea mining operations could have dire environmental consequences, according to a northern Ontario mining expert.