U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the ocean floor despite the ...

A Sinner of the Deep Sea is a nearly-perfect three-volume series. I wish it could have been longer, because this is a world and characters who are so well realized that it feels like a shame to ...

A US push to approve deep-sea mining in domestic and international waters "violates international law", China warned on Friday after a White House order to ramp up permits. "The US authorisation ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ...

In response to media inquiries regarding reports that US President Donald Trump’s order to boost the deep-sea mining industry has faced opposition from environmental groups, Chinese Foreign ...

“Any attempt to accelerate deep-sea mining without proper safeguards will only speed up the destruction of our oceans.” This was echoed by the Washington-based group Ocean ...

White House aides say the initiative could see US operations scoop up more than a billion metric tons of mineral-rich deep-sea nodules, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the American ...

"The United States government has no right to unilaterally allow an industry to destroy the common heritage of humankind and rip up the deep sea for the profit of a few corporations," said Arlo ...

Commercial deep-sea mining remains in its infancy, but with a global race underway for rare earth minerals – and the industry dominated by China – Washington appears set on expanding its ...