The deep-sea mining gamble is no financial miracle. Rather, it is a sinking investment that is quite literally costing the earth for minerals we don’t need. The Metals Company’s recent ...

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.

Finally, the mining of the seafloor is governed by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ratified by 169 countries. The Secretary General of the International Seabed Authority has ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and ...

Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the wor.

Deep sea mining may soon begin as The Metals Company pushes to extract battery minerals from the ocean floor—despite environmental concerns and legal hurdles.

Deep-sea mining could have a significant environmental impact. The seafloor holds large amounts of carbon dioxide and when it’s churned and moved, the gas can escape.

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...

Companies want to deep sea mine — even without a rulebook Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals.

A discussion of deep-sea mining of critical minerals on the ocean floor, the importance of critical minerals for the clean energy transition, the global and national approaches to regulating the ...

Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56311-0 Cite This ...

In the early 2020s, deep-seafloor mining was advertised as a source of key metals for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. However, battery technology has moved dramatically forward with new ...