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 ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

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 ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ...

White House aides say the initiative could see US operations scoop up more than a billion metric tons of deep-sea nodules and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the American economy.

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has defied international norms and instructed a quick start to deep-sea mining in domestic waters and beyond, sparking an angry warning from Beijing that the move ...

Where does the deep sea begin? Definitions vary across science and legal frameworks. For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the European Marine Board's (EMB) Deep Sea and Ocean ...

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 ...