Humanity has only explored 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a May 2025 study.Getty Images Reporter The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track ...

Deep-sea mining for battery minerals is coming – thanks to a Canadian firm Laura Trethewey Special to The Globe and Mail Published June 14, 2023 Updated December 12, 2023 ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...

There's no evidence that deep-sea mining would prevent terrestrial mining. It's likely that both will occur, causing double destruction, rather than one taking the place of the other.

Scientists estimate that each full-scale deep-sea mining operation could produce up to 500 million cubic metres of discharge over a 30-year period.

A recent executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump to invest in deep sea mining operations could have dire environmental consequences, according to a northern Ontario mining expert. On ...