There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

But in 1981, the Reagan Administration upended what were known as the law of the sea negotiations and withdrew U.S. support for the draft treaty over disputes about the deep sea mining provisions.

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and companies are already lining up to mine U.S. waters.

The Trump Administration signed an Executive Order on Thursday, April 24, to jump-start deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean. The order, the White House says, “establishes the U.S. as a global ...

The deep sea provides food to many species in shallower waters, like the swordfish, which dives up to 1,200 meters to feed. Related We’re protecting the ocean wrong ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to calls for a moratorium on all deep ...

Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by The Metals Company during a test expedition. The company hopes to extract nodules of critical minerals from the seabed.

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and sharks, a major piece of industry-funded research found Thursday.

The quest to exploit deep-sea mineral resources — and debates over benefits and harms — is intensifying in D.C. and internationally. Why it matters: U.S. regulators are now weighing an actual ...