The Trump administration will offer the first-ever offshore mining leases for deep-sea mining off the coast of American Samoa ...

The historic November auction advances Trump's critical minerals agenda despite opposition from environmental and local ...

During Oct. 2026, the research vessel SONNE set sail from San Diego into the Pacific Ocean for expedition SO322. Its ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with allowing deep-sea mining in the waters near American Samoa, and legal efforts ...

In a recent paper published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) warn that some ...

Samoan council of chiefs and community groups seek to protect over 31 million acres of ocean from destructive mining activity ...

The Trump administration is officially moving ahead with a decision to lease ocean tracts off the coast of American Samoa for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (CSE: SEAS) (OTCQB: DSEAF) (FSE: X450) ('Deep Sea Minerals' or the 'Company') welcomes the recognition of deep sea mining in U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent’s ...

Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent, ...