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 ...

Called NeMo microservices, the software tools, which are part of Nvidia's AI Enterprise software portfolio, offer several functions that customize and repeatedly optimize the functioning of AI ...

Environmental advocate Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala spoke to The Conversation's Maddie Bender about ocean protections amid ...

The order, handed down Thursday, comes less than a month after the The Metals Company said it was seeking U.S. approval to mine polymetallic ... on the Law of the Sea. Last month, The Metals ...

A3: At present, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is responsible for deep-sea mine licensing within United States jurisdiction, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...