The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling the area it hopes to mine.

The Metals Co on Thursday became the first deep-sea miner to seek Washington's approval to mine the international seabed ...

The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic ...

Nearly 1,000 marine scientists and policy experts have similarly voiced their opposition. Even the surface of the moon is ...

The Trump administration is pressing ahead on Wednesday with an effort to encourage U.S. exploration of the deep sea by ...

A global race for critical rare earth minerals is reshaping geopolitics and national security as countries seek to diversify ...

Far beneath the surface of central China, geologists have mapped a buried gold field so large it is already being described ...

Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo, from January 11 to February 14, the head of ...

The U.S. government is moving closer to approving deep-sea mining in international waters, opening a contentious new front in the push to secure critical minerals. Federal officials said they will ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding scientific studies to evaluate the ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...