WASHINGTON— President Trump signed an executive order today to fast-track a process that purports to allow U.S.-affiliated companies to mine the deep seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

reducing the catch within the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Pacific SIDS, with a potential economic loss of up to $140 ...

Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition ... it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan ...

Britain may trigger a national security review over the proposed sale of two deep-sea mining exploration licences ... The potential sale comes amid heightened global interest in critical minerals ...

For the first time ever, a colossal squid has been captured on camera alive and in its natural deep-sea habitat—100 years after the species was formally identified. A juvenile, just 30cm long, was ...

In recent years, as global demand for critical minerals ... and the Cook Islands are supportive of deep-sea mining in their own economic zones. The U.S. has not signed on to UNCLOS—though ...