An ambitious, forward-looking economic and security alliance could net a billion-dollar windfall over the next decade.

Supporters say mining the seafloor could cause less environmental harm than mining on land. Opponents say the danger to ...

A 1,000-tonne ship is exploring the far-flung South Pacific for riches buried beneath the waves, spearheading efforts to dredge the tropical waters for industrial deep-sea mining. But plans to mine ...

President Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining and exercising U.S. sovereignty by doing so, even with the country not being a signatory party to UCLOS, are both perfectly legal. Seabed mining doesn’t ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

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The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged sea floor ecosystems -- or how long it would take. One ...

Protesters project a slide opposed to deep-sea mining on the side of the Hidden Gem deep-sea mining vessel, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 8, 2022 (Sipa photo by Charles M. Vella via AP Images).

As demand for critical minerals surges amid fears of overreliance on Chinese supplies, the United States has begun taking steps to secure access to the vast stores of minerals on the seabed. With ...

The U.S. has partnered with the Cook Islands, a self-governing country in the South Pacific, to develop the latter's resource potential and build up America's critical mineral stockpile. "The ...