Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

An executive order to fast-track seabed mining was issued just days before a hearing on the potential for extracting critical ...

Only 1.5% of coral habitat in the world is considered pristine, so the protection of the seabed is one of the most robust ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to approve its plans to mine the international ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

Any country can mine its own water. Norway voted last year to open part of its Arctic seabed to deep-sea mining but has since paused the project. In international waters, the process is governed ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co. asked the Trump administration today to approve its plans to mine the international ...

Te Ipukarea Society says the arrogance of the US president to think he can break international law by authorising deep sea ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting. These changes now implicate the international framework for ...