The western part of the Black Sea is threatened by sea mines. Hundreds of devices are a hazard to the coastal and maritime ...

Adversarial nations and strategic competitors currently dominate global supplies of rare earth elements—and control much of ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Three robotic arms extended under the water in a Canadian lake, delicately selecting pebbles from the bed, before storing ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa.

Companies are still developing mining vehicles, but one method would be to use large tractor-sized machines that drive across the sea floor plucking up nodules and transporting them via long pipes ...

Seaweed absorbs rare minerals and elements from seawater as it grows. A new initiative from Blue Evolution, called Orca Minerals, aims to harvest the materials.

For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human ...