Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples ...

New research highlights significant ecological risks from deep-sea mining, intensifying global debate over whether securing ...

Rare-earth elements help power our everyday electrical devices, and that’s because most batteries are made with minerals like ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining operation churned through the seabed. Once the machinery arrived, biodiversity ...

Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman says deep-sea mining companies are innovating for how to efficiently mine rare Earth minerals — but scaling this work is still a big question. The International ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that called for the industry’s rapid formation to bolster ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...