Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

He had been paddling since dawn along the south shore of Molokaʻi, and his arms were tired ... the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica made her realize how little control Pacific peoples ...

(Bloomberg) -- A seabed mining company has asked the Trump ... license for the Pacific Ocean could upend an international treaty that governs deep-sea mining and other uses of the world’s ...

87 countries, including Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.

Now the Trump administration, which has already expressed its desire to retake the Panama Canal and assume control ... seabed mining might take place. But the United States has never signed the ...