The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to approve its plans to mine the international ...

A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Undersea explorer The Metals Company (TMC) has submitted the first-ever application for a commercial recovery permit to mine ...

The quest to exploit deep-sea mineral resources — and debates over benefits and harms — is intensifying in D.C. and ...