President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for ...

The executive order will help private deep-sea mining companies to access mineral-rich nodules on the sea floor.

The order seeks swift permits for mining nickel, cobalt and other minerals from the sea floor. Critics say it threatens both ocean life and global agreements.

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

He estimated that allowing the company to collect a billion tonnes of nodules via deep-sea mining could provide the United States with "456 years of manganese, 165 years of cobalt, 81 years of ...

He estimated that allowing the company to collect a billion tonnes of nodules via deep-sea mining could provide the United States with "456 years of manganese, 165 years of cobalt, 81 years of nickel ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company ... It wants to collect so-called polymetallic nodules -- mineral deposits made up of multiple metals -- on the Pacific Ocean floor.

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones. He found an old photograph of the roughly 8m-wide machine used to harvest nodules. His team visited the test site in 2023 ...