If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world ... can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and experiments ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and ... such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the past 40 years ...

“We have to bring all the resources together." While the study provides a clear picture of all known deep-sea animals in the CCZ, it also shows everything we don’t know about biodiversity in ...

The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

It was attached to the stem of a sea sponge anchored on one of the valuable nodules ... deep-sea ecosystem–“a whole thriving community down there”—so colorful and diverse that it conjures ...

Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “The Authority ... Martin exploratory permits for deep-sea mining within the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a nodule-rich region south of Hawaiʻi.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels ... where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and ...