Donald Trump's administration takes a controversial step. It expands deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals. This move aims ...

US President Donald Trump has defied international norms on the nascent field of deep-sea mining, signing an executive order ...

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral ...

WASHINGTON— President Trump signed an executive order today to fast-track a process that purports to allow U.S.-affiliated companies to mine the deep seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order ...

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could lead to a host of problems for underwater ecosystems.

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

The Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar have long served as rich fishing grounds, providing bountiful harvests to Sri Lanka’s ...

By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...