A Vancouver-based company that aims to mine the ocean floor for critical minerals is removing a series of promotional ...

Scientists discovered massive volcanic rubble, breccia, on the South Atlantic seabed. This porous rock traps far more carbon ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...

NASA recently released a ground-breaking global map of the ocean floor, primarily powered by data from the SWOT satellite ...

The company is looking to mine the deep-sea ocean floor for mineral-rich rocks, but it faces hurdles before it can begin.

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, wants his firm to be the first to commercially mine the ocean floor. He applauded a recent executive order signed by President Trump, which promotes deep-sea ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote that 50 or 60 years ago a common perception was that the ocean was the new frontier, and in the future ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...