Far beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in one of Earth’s least explored regions, scientists have found a surprising ...

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of ...

India has extended the bidding process for deep-sea blocks abundant in critical minerals, essential for electric vehicle ...

The legal argument that the U.S. retains rights to harvest minerals under domestic law was pioneered by the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Groves. Notably, TMC officials referenced Groves’ analysis in ...

India has extended an auction of deep-sea blocks containing critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other ...

“It’s better down where it’s wetter,” crooned Sebastian, the Disney crab, to the Little Mermaid. The sentiment is enthusiastically shared by a group of investors who have bet millions on extracting ...

China is currently by far the world’s biggest supplier of rare earth minerals, accounting for nearly 70% of the global ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato ... with rich deposits of nickel, manganese, copper, zinc, cobalt.