There are many companies developing plans for seabed mining, arguing that picking up these rocks is a better way of feeding the decarbonization beast than scarring the surface any further. But ...

The first commercial effort to exploit these riches failed a century later. In 1970, a U.S. company hoisted 60,000 rocks from the seafloor off the coast of Charleston, S.C., and then dumped most ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

A defunct mine tapped into a coal seam, or underground strip of coal, that snakes through that stretch of Boulder. Active mining hasn’t occurred in the area for decades, according to Graves, but ...

Crews have begun a long-awaited project to extinguish a coal seam fire that has been burning underground on Marshall Mesa, south of Boulder, Colorado, for over a century.. The fire, a remnant of ...