Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores and minerals. They say it could lead to irreparable harm to marine ...

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NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to affect marine ecosystems, raising concerns over its lasting ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

A handful of firms are waiting for Norway to issue the first deep sea mining licenses. File photo of deep-sea mining protestors. Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/ AFP Companies are raring to explore the ...

The industry has already suffered a false start. Norway's parliament had voted massively in favour of deep-sea mining, experts had concluded there were significant resources to be extracted ...

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The company, backed by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, first began open-pit mining at Kathleen Valley in July 2024, with the aim of eventually transitioning to an underground-only operation ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US President Donald Trump.