The share price of TMC The Metals Company ( TMC +1.75%) jumped on news released on March 9, 2026. The news was important to the company's goal of building a deep-seabed mining business, but it isn't ...

Through its membership, Deep Sea Minerals Corp. will engage with industry leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders to support policies that strengthen U.S. leadership in offshore resource development ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Wrinkle structures are small ridges and pits in rock, often made by microbial mats. They’re best known from Precambrian and Cambrian strata, where they serve as important evidence of early life, and ...

Driven by three presidential executive orders signed in 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to loosen its rules governing seabed mining, which could commence in a matter of ...

Trump’s aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure on global negotiators to act fast to shape deep-sea mining rules. Trump’s aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure ...

A single-celled organism that thrives in cold, dark ocean water may hold a surprising advantage as global temperatures climb. New research on the ammonia-oxidizing archaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus ...

Deep-sea waters are warming due to heat waves and climate change, and it could spell trouble for the oceans’ delicate chemical and biological balance. A new study demonstrates that the microbes may ...

A mechanical claw holds a polymetallic nodule, one of several seafloor sources of critical minerals. ROV-Team/GEOMAR via Wikimedia , CC BY You may ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

The Trump administration wants to allow deep-sea mining for critical minerals near the American territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Residents are worried about environmental impacts.