The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Breaching settled international law, Mr Trump’s order applies to international waters beyond American jurisdiction as well as ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

Deep sea mining, however, may not be the only way the U.S. hopes to ramp up its mineral supply. The Trump Administration has ...

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, Trump has ignited a new fight over seabed mining; America’s only rare-earth mine ...

The initiative thrusts an agency known for regulating U.S. oceans and fisheries into a potential diplomatic row with the ...

A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor.

The head of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) on Wednesday criticized US President Donald Trump's order to fast-track deep-sea mining in the open ocean outside American territorial waters. "No ...

President Trump's interest in deep-sea mining in the face of global pressure means he must be doing something right.

Hawaii leaders are speaking out against an executive order by President Donald Trump that opens the door for large-scale mining of the ocean floor, both within U.S. waters and internationally.

Such concerns prompted most countries in the 1990s to join a United Nations-affiliated International Seabed Authority to govern seabed mining in international waters. But the U.S. never signed onto ...

Trump’s executive order came just weeks after the UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) closed its 30th session in Jamaica without finalising a rule book on the safe and sustainable exploitation ...