While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...
A DW investigation traces the hidden financial web behind deep-sea mining — an industry scientists say remains poorly understood, yet capable of causing irreversible harm to oceans worldwide.
On January 21, 2026, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a final rule revising its regulations governing deep ...
The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...
The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...
Final rule would speed process companies must go through to receive exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit ...
Seabed mining could become one of the defining environmental battles of 2025. Around the world, governments are weighing up whether to allow mining of the ocean floor for metal ores and minerals. New ...
The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic ...
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday issued a new rule to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters, ...
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider ...
Tokyo hopes the plan to mine as much as 16 million tonnes of rare earths will help reduce its reliance on China, but will it work?