Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, we have witnessed an upsurge of interest and intrigue surrounding the critical minerals necessary for the renewable energy transition and ...

President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for ...

New research highlights significant ecological risks from deep-sea mining, intensifying global debate over whether securing ...

On October 28, 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sent a draft rule to the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs that would ...

The Cook Islands—population 15,000—are being courted by the two superpowers as they hunt for rare earths, and could stand to ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

Protesters project a slide opposed to deep-sea mining on the side of the Hidden Gem deep-sea mining vessel, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 8, 2022 (Sipa photo by Charles M. Vella via AP Images).