President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

Talks to develop rules for deep-sea mining are still ongoing through the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a process that ...

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

The administration moves to sidestep U.N. body governing the ocean floor and the harvesting of minerals and metals in ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at establishing American "dominance" in deep-sea mining in ...

Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within the US and in international waters. The Thursday order is the latest issued by the US president to ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is scrambling to devise a rulebook for deep-sea mining, balancing its economic ...

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

The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in ...

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

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and ...