Just days before the January 12 deadline to comment on a federal proposal that could open more than 35 million acres of seabed to deep sea mining, the 38th Guam Legislature has once again made its pos ...

MT. PLEASANT, SC / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / Deep Sea Rare Minerals, Inc. (DSRM) announced today that it has ...

Tokyo set to make world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare-earth-rich mud from a depth of around 6,000m ...

Any renewable energy source a country can support will become a hub for investment. Countries are researching not only solar energy but also the minerals ...

Legal experts say deep-sea mining cannot start until the ISA agrees how profits from the global seabed would be shared.

With deep-sea mining already under scrutiny, Guam lawmakers are advancing a resolution aimed at reinforcing the island’s opposition.  Supporters say this moment is about drawing a clear line as ...

Mining the ocean floor for submerged minerals is a little-known, experimental industry. But soon it will take place on the deep seabed, which belongs to everyone, according to international law.

The US just inched closer to endorsing a new kind of mining frontier: scraping metals from the deep ocean floor in international waters. The Trump administration has begun formally reviewing the first ...

Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres ...

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining companies to ...

New report, “In Too Deep: What We Know, And Don’t Know, About Deep Seabed Mining,” outlines likely impacts of deep seabed mining on ecosystems and biodiversity, and risks of allowing industry to ...

Scott Shackelford is a principal investigator on grants from the Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Science Foundation, and the Microsoft Corporation supporting both the ...