You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...

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

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...

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 ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 deep-sea species thriving in near-total darkness, many of which may be entirely ...

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 ...