Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

"Driven by three presidential executive orders signed in 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to loosen its rules governing seabed mining, which could commence in a matter of years in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. On my desk at home is a ...

The study examined the effects of mining discharge on zooplankton and the small shrimp and fish that consume the small organisms. The sediment waste from deep-sea mining could potentially displace or ...

Even as opposition grows and the U.S. territory maintains a moratorium on seabed mining, NOAA began a $20 million survey of ...

Determination of substantial compliance marks a key step in the U.S. regulatory process for exploration and commercial recovery of polymetallic nodules in the Clarion Clipperton ZoneTMC USA's consolid ...

Users can track ships as they search international waters for the “polymetallic nodules” on the ocean floor. An environmental nonprofit and university researchers are applying marine vessel tracking ...

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the ...

Imagine diving into the deep blue waters of the open ocean, approximately 500 miles southeast of Hawaii. At first, there would be some sunlight, but this would soon fade as you begin your descent. By ...