Damaging such a lightweight vessel is no great feat.

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

The executive order will help private deep-sea mining companies to access mineral-rich nodules on the sea floor.

Researchers from NOAA discovered a 1940 Ford Super Deluxe inside the wreck of the USS Yorktown, a World War II aircraft ...

At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at establishing American "dominance" in deep-sea mining in ...

President Trump signed an executive order to boost the U.S. deep-sea mining industry for critical minerals. Supporters say ...

As the US and China are embroiled in a trade war, China has restricted its exports ... especially one that is untested globally. No commercial deep sea mining has started anywhere.

China and Russia are expanding their deep sea presence through undersea cable warfare, seabed surveillance and military infrastructure. The Cook Islands lies directly on the sea lines of ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.