The International Seabed Authority is working to set regulations for deep-sea mining as companies engaged in the clean energy transition clamor for more minerals. That transition will be a central ...

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.

Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years have shown how the removal of nodules can put seafloor creatures at risk by disrupting their habitats.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the International Seabed Authority considers the future of deep-sea mining for battery metals, California and other states are seeking bans against mining. Opposition swells amid debate over ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...