In an effort to bolster supply chains for essential minerals, the United States is looking toward deep-sea mining, and TMC is leading the charge.

Deep-sea mining is back on Washington’s radar (or should that be sonar?) under President Donald Trump. Mineral-rich nodules ...

In March, The Metals Company proudly announced that its application for deep-sea mining was in "substantial compliance." ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — Miles under the ocean’s surface, atop the soft sediment that makes up the seafloor, sit thousands of potato-sized spheres of metal. These spheres, called polymetallic nodules or ...

Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70- ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

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 ...

Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations ...

America has lawful authority to proceed with deep-sea mining—and doing so would break China’s dominance in critical mineral ...