By Ernest Scheyder HOUSTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday signaled it is nearing approval for ...

The offshore Sandpiper Project would be the world’s first commercial deep-sea phosphate mine.

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining ...

The Metals Company has vast upside from its deep-sea mining business.

She opened the page, and was stunned by what she read. The Trump administration planned to lease millions of acres of ...

The Pacific Islands region, which stretches across almost a fifth of the world’s surface and holds vast amounts of untapped ...

The Wild West is alive and well — it just moved underwater. As nations and companies race to stake their claim in the deep sea, industry is moving faster than regulation can keep up. This year, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. As with other polarized issues such as nuclear energy, there has ...

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero intends to have Guam considered an adjacent state to deep-sea mining and exploration areas, in the ...

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 rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote ...