Trump's aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure on global negotiators to act fast to shape deep-sea mining ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working ...

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider ...

Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations ...

Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, ...

"Driven by three presidential executive orders signed in 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to loosen its rules governing seabed mining, which could commence in a matter of years in ...

Determination of substantial compliance marks a key step in the U.S. regulatory process for exploration and commercial recovery of polymetallic ...