Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions ...
Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...
Image Image by Andres Alegria. From the story "China's Deep-Sea Mining Fleet May Also Track U.S. Submarines." “It can feel ...
Trump on Thursday sought to fast-track the pursuit of strategically important minerals such as nickel, copper and rare earth elements from the seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order, which ...
On Thursday, April 24, President Donald Trump revealed his latest executive order (EO) aimed at securing critical mineral supply chains and countering China’s dominance in the industry. “Unleashing ...
More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) recently announced rule changes that would accelerate deep-sea mining in U.S. waters. The move includes shortened environmental review timelines and ...
A veritable gold rush appears to be opening up, not in the dusty hills of California but in the deep seabeds of the Pacific Ocean — one that’s being driven by an insatiable global demand of critical ...